Re: Why can't boot from network
On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, Gavinux Li wrote:
> I installed rarpd, arp, tftpd, bootparamd using rpm
> today on Redhat 7.1.
> I created a /etc/ethers which contains:
> sparc 08:00:20:1a:2b:3c
> I added a line in /etc/hosts, which is:
> 192.168.10.12 sparc
> I started rarpd by rarpd -a
The man page says -a tells rarpd to not bind to the interface.
What does that achieve? The default args in /etc/init.d/rarpd
on my Debian system here are "-e -b /var/tftp". The bootdir is
probably different on your RH system.
> Now I boot my sparc IPX and enter serial console, and
> issue command:
> ok boot net
>
> BUT, I got
> Boot Device: /sbus/le@0,c00000 File and args:
> Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet
>
>
> I spend a whole day tried to find out what wrong it
> is, and read lots of documents in the internet, but I
> can't find out the problem,
Have you tried the -v and -d options to rarpd? They could be
very useful.
bye
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