Remote Booting Question/Problem on IPC

[Scott Omar Burch <scott.omar.burch@usa.net>]

I recently decided to take an old IPC I had that was running Solaris 2.5
and convert it to Linux. I tried to do a remote boot using the
tftpboot.img, but after I type boot net and wait for about five minutes
the IPC tells me that the file does not appear to be bootable. I tried
to do this same procedure with Red Hat's 5.1 tftpboot.img file, but I
get the same results.

Here are some more details of what I did:

I setup tftp on another Linux box and added rarp and arp entries for the
IPC. I copied the tftpboot.img file to the tftp directory I specified in
the init scritpt and created a symbolic link to the file named with the
machines hex hardware address and a .SUN4C extension.

Details on the IPC:

I believe the prom is version 2.09. When I halt the boot process I have
to type n or new to get the new openboot prompt. The machine has 32 MB
of RAM and a 1.2 GB Disk.

I suspect I am doing something wrong. Can anyone offer me any
suggestions?

If I get the remote boot to work what methods can I use to access the
base.tgz file?

Thanks,
Scott


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