Re: Sparc5 woody boot woes update
An update for those interested in my progress with getting this working.
:-)
I set up my Linux laptop as a DHCP server. I can confirm it's working
as, quite coincidentally, a colleague popped by my desk to ask what the
next free IP address was. Sure enough, in my log he'd already been
picked up by the new DHCP server...so far so good. Next, I fiddled with
xinetd to get tftpd set up. It's the only service I configured to run
under xinetd and xinetd duly informs me now that it actually has one
service configured to run.
Unfortunately, still, when I "boot net", I get the message "Timeout
waiting for ARP/RARP packet".
I found this trolling the web for solutions
(http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2002/debian-boot-200211/msg00280.html)
so tried that (i.e. "boot net:dhcp") but it continues issuing the
timeout message.
I've run watch-net and it only reports good packets, so clearly
something is getting through. However my laptop's logs show me nothing
by way of communication. I can set the arp entry on my laptop for the
sparc5 ok fine (my kernel doesn't support rarp (yet)), but still the
timeout messages flow. The above link doesn't seem to think that should
matter though, so I'm kinda done for the day on this.
If any of this is ringing alarm bells for anyone, please let me know!
Thanks../Taras
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