Re: Net boot with tftp
On Mon, 24 Aug 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote:
> I am doing some work on "Diskless XTerminals"
> (http://people.delphi.com/sjc/linux)
> I decided to give it a try with my SUN IPC.
> To do this I need a custom kernel so I built one with NFSROOT and bootp
> both on.
>
> I did a make vmlinux in the kernel TLD mostly because I have found
> "make zImage" and "make bzImage" to NOT work on the Sparc :( and
> when i built my custom kernel (which I am currently using) on the sparc
> I did a "make vmlinux" to make it...
>
> I rdev'd it to use /dev/nfs and placed it in /boot/ then made the
> proper sym link so that my IPC could find it...
> I used the exact same name as tftpboot.img used when I installed
> Debian on my IPC...used the same IP adress et al
>
> I type "boot net" on the IPC and it loads the image....I see the hex numbers
> scroll up then it stops (like it finished loading) then it just sits there
>
> am I doing this wrong?
>
> I thought if I just built a kernel and placed it there it would load? is
> tftpboot.img really anything more than a kernel and a initial ram
> disk?
>
> any help is apreciated
>
Pad the file tftpboot.img to a multiple of 4 bytes long (with dd, for
example. Search this mailing list for good approaches.
Jules
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