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Re: netboot weirdness (does not access nfsroot)



On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 10:48:46AM -0800, Daryl Williams wrote:
> 
> hello folks. the saga continues. i am now able to boot the kernel i built
> for my diskless workstation. the thing is, the kernel does not appear to
> contact dhcp (which has been configured w/the mac address of the imac
> to serve up the ip address, etc.)  and rather boots up using it's local disk
> for the root file system.
> 
> i configured the kernel so that:
> 
> kernel autoconfigs ip
> uses nfsroot
> tulip driver built in (not module)
> dhcp support (i am using dhcp3 daemon on the server)
> initrd support
> rom support
> ramdisk support
> 
> my tftp directory looks like this:
> 
> /tftpboot/ppc/yaboot
> /tftpboot/ppc/yaboot.conf
> /tftpboot/ppc/vmlinux
> 
> however yaboot never finds yaboot.conf.

probably because its not at the tftp root.

if you can't do a:

tftp localhost
get yaboot.conf

and get your config then yaboot won't either.

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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