Re: ANN: new boot disks to test

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

ferret@phonewave.net wrote:
> 
> New go with the boot disks, mostly the same problems.
> 
> I'm setting up an NFSroot with the old Slink disks, but I've forgotten how
> to make it boot over NFS again. I copied the vmlinuz file from the install
> into /tftpboot/<HEX IP address>.SUN4C and passed some boot paramaters.
> 
> |ok boot net root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=192.168.1.42:/mount/nfs/nfsroot/goober
> ip=192.168.1.50:192.168.1.42
> |Boot device: /sbus/le@0,c00000   File and args: root=/dev/nfs
> nfsroot=192.168.1.42:/mount/nfs/nfsroot/goober ip=192.168.1.50:192c4c00
> |The file just loaded does not appear to be executable.
> |ok
> 
> Could someone get me quickly fixed here, then I'll print out the
> instructions and try not to lose them this time?

Use linux-a.out kernel instead of vmlinuz.  OpenPROM requires an a.out
executable to download, not a compressed ELF file.

Regards.

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