On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 06:05:32PM -0500, Susan Kleinmann wrote:
> I am trying to install Debian onto a floppy-less CD-ROM-less Shuttle
> XPC SS40G with an AMD Athlon installed.
>
> Following the instructions at:
> http://www.debianplanet.org/node.php?id=818
> I obtained the linux.bin and root.bin files from the woody distribution,
> (woody/main/disks-i386/current/bf2.4), installed them as suggested, got
> the Shuttle to connect to a DHCP server and fetch itself an IP address,
> return a boot prompt, and then begin booting.
>
> Soon thereafter, the boot loader gets stuck, with the following message:
> Loading.
> 8000
> AX:0208
> BX:0200
> CX:0002
> DX:0000.
> 8000
> AX:0208
> ... (repeats)
>
> At this point, the tftp process begins to record this in syslog:
> sent DATA <block: 36, size 512>
> timeout: retrying...
>
> I checked the md5sums of the linux.bin and root.bin files were correct.
>
> Can anyone offer suggestions as to what I might look at to diagnose this
> problem?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Susan
>
> P.S. In case it matters: this system comes with a network chip built into
> the motherboard, but I also installed a second network card, and that's what
> I'm booting with.
Hi Susan,
This is a shot in the dark since I don't have any PXE cards installed
right now. However, I have done netboot installs for several of my
sparcs and ran into a similar problem. The symptom was that after
downloading some amount (a power of 2 no less) the download would
freeze, and tftpd began logging timeouts. I discovered that this was
because the machine attempting to netboot had grabbed an IP address
already in use elsewhere on the network!
Good luck!
--
Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:nnorman@incanus.net
Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty as well as by
the abuses of power.
-- James Madison
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