On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 12:20:14PM +0100, Jurzitza, Dieter wrote: > Dear listmembers, > to realize a netboot, I set up one of my boxes to run rarpd. The other one (that should boot) boots usually from cdrom. > I took the vmlinuz, the System.map and the initrd file from the cdrom, uncompressed vmlinuz, converted it to an aout file using elftoaout. > > Then I grouped the files by piggyback64 using > > piggyback64 vmlinux System.map initrd > > and put the resulting file vmlinux into the boot-server's tftpboot directory, making a link to the target's ip-address. > > Everything seems to work, the boot starts, the kernel is being downloaded from the server, the actual boot starts. > Then I get: > > *** > Freeing initrd memory - 923k freed > VFS: mounted root (ext2 filesystem). > /bin/sh: Can't open 172.16.56.152 (this is my tftp - server's IP address) > Unimplemented Sparc System Call 188 (propably unrelated) > Kernel panic: Attempted to kill init > press L1 > > Can anybody help me out of this? Many thanks in advance, > take care "boot net vmlinuz ramdisk=... ramdisk_size" See Debian-Installer Manual for detailed examples. > > > > Dieter Jurzitza Geert Stappers
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