Re: tftp boot troubles (IBM p655)
On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 12:29:53PM +1100, Anton Blanchard wrote:
: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
I've tried that too, interestingly after failing the initial netboot I
can nolonger even get the IP from BOOTP on the second or subsequent
attempts. I should give the ENV settings another go because I don't
think I've tried them imediately after a powercycle.
The other thing may be that it's loosing it's gateway info somehow as
the network switch forwards BOOTP off subnet to the BOOTP server but
doesn't provide this redirecton for tftp.
:Once it does boot there are two problems installing debian.
Of course :)
: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.
The default AIX kernels they came running were only 32bit, so I was
hoping 32bit Linux would atleast boot to the place were I can do some
native kernel builds, am I deluded?
: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.
This confuses me, how does one compile in a binary only driver? More
to the point do you have a URL for the distribution, I've only been
able to get IBM to tell me they're planning future linux support for
this model not any details like this...
Thanks,
-Jon
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