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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