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Re: problem with tftp boot



Eric,

I found tftpboot.imp and I could boot off the img now.  Thanks


Jerry Xie wrote:

> Eric,
>
> I really appreciate your help.  I'm using Sparc IPC ( Sun4c ).
> By the way, I couldn't find ftpboot.imp.  Could you point me
> to the right direction to search the file ?
>
> Thanks
>
> -Jerry
>
> Eric Delaunay wrote:
>
> > 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.
> >
> > --
> >  Eric Delaunay                 | "La guerre justifie l'existence des militaires.
> >  delaunay@lix.polytechnique.fr | En les supprimant." Henri Jeanson (1900-1970)
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