Re: pxelinux boot isn't loading woody kernel

[Susan Kleinmann <sgk@kleinmann.com>]

Hi Norman,

Thanks for your quick reply.  Following your suggestion, I verified that
the IP address being used by the Shuttle XPC was not already in use, so that
wasn't the problem.

Further investigation shows that the woody kernel doesn't work with the
Shuttle.  I don't know whether the problem is the CPU or the chipset, but
kernel-image-2.4.20-1-k7 seems to make a lot more progress in the boot.
I haven't gotten it to boot completely yet, but at least now I know that
the problem is the kernel (and not the DHCP setup or the TFTP setup or
the PXE setup, or something else).

Thanks again,
Susan

On Sat, 29 Mar 2003 17:45:18 CST, Nathan E Norman <nnorman@incanus.net>  said: 
> 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!