Re: problem with tftp boot

[Eric Delaunay <delaunay@lix.polytechnique.fr>]

Jerry Xie wrote:
> 
> I tried to boot the installation system using tftp,  looks like I passed
> 
> TILO and post,  but I got error message:
> 
> RAMDISK: Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0
> You didn't specify the type of your ufs filesystem
> 
>    mount -t ufs -o ufstype=sun|44bsd|old|next|openstep ....
> 
> 
> ufs_read_super: bad magic number
> Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs on 01:00
> Press L1-A to return to the boot prom
> 
> 
> Did any body see this kind of error before ?  Please help.
> 
> I did put  tftpboot-2.2.1.img in /tftpboot, and linked
> debian-sparc-root to the ip_address_of_client in /tftpboot.
> Obviously, the tftp was working, but how can I specify the type
> of file system in a tftp boot process ?
> 
> Is there any thing missing here ?

tftpboot image contains itself a ramdisk, so there is no need to link
debian-sparc-root to the ip addr.
Which kind of hardware are you using (sparc, ultra) ?
If old sparc could you try ftpboot.img (which is 2.0.35 based) ?

Regards.


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