Re: tftpboot.img
On Mon, 20 Jul 1998 Dinh-Tuan.Pham@imag.fr wrote:
> > I tcpdump'ed the period while it is waiting, and the SPARC is doing lots
> > of ACK commands, clearly waiting for something. Believing that redhat's
> > tftp was broken, I first updated it, and secondly copied across my debian
> > one, but these didn't fix it.
> >
> > Eventually, on a whim, I noticed that the tftpboot.img is a odd-number of
> > bytes long. I used dd to pad it with zeros to the nearest 4-byte
> > boundary, and tried again. It works! So this appears to be some
> > alignment issue with the SPARC's tftp code.
>
> Can you explain more what you are doing. I may try it too.
There is probably a neater way, but I did
dd bs=2516356 if=tftpboot.img of=tftpboot.img.new conv=sync
>
> > Could this same thing be the problem with the floppies? Are SS2's more
> > fussy about alignment?
>
> I have been able to boot into linux with the debian floppies on the
> sparc IPC. But I got into another problem: the keybord is repeating
> too fast (actually the delay before repeating is so short). This is
> vary annoying because it is quite hard to enter a passwd correctly to
> login. Furthermore the same problem occure under X and xset does not
> seem to have any effect on the keyboard repeat. I have tried to issue
> "xset r off" to turn of keyboard repeating but to no avail. I have
> post the problem to this news group but never get a solution. For this
> reason, I would like very much to install the redhat sparc linux to
> see if it works better.
It's *very* quiet in here at the moment... I guess the debian-sparc guys
are busy at the moment. So, if you're listening, I'm happy to help
out... :-)
Jules
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