Re: tftp boot troubles (IBM p655)
> I have six shiny new IBM p655 nodes
Great!
> and I can't do a thing with them...
Not great.
> I'll save AIX aches for else where, but my Debian problem is that I
> can't seem to get them to tftpboot (and they have no removable media).
>
> the get IP and the boot file name correctly from the DHCP server via
> BOOTP, but they try and tftp from 255.255.255.255 rather than the
> server I specify as "next-server" in the dhcp entry for the host or
> the reasonable default of trying the BOOTP server's address.
On my machines it will try and tftp from the bootp server address. If it
doesnt respond then it falls back to the broadcast address. Ive never
tried using next-server, although you might have some luck with:
ibm,fw-clientipaddr
ibm,fw-serveripaddr
ibm,fw-gatewayipaddr
ibm,fw-netmask
Once it does boot there are two problems installing debian.
Firstly we dont have an install image with a 64bit kernel. You can work
around it by grabbing the ramdisk image and building a kernel with it.
We would have ppc64 debian install images if the boot floppies stuff
wasnt so hard to work out. Im hoping someone who knows what they are
doing ends up building them :)
Last problem is that the p655 contains a new SCSI chipset and IBM has
decided to release a binary only linux driver. You will need to compile
it in.
Anton
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