On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 06:39:33PM +0530, Naveen wrote: > > Hi, > > We are trying to netboot a IBM pSeries system but as per the following > URL, it is not supposed to work. > > http://penguinppc.org/~hollis/linux/rs6k-netboot.shtml > > We still tried and of course it didn't work. > > >From the above URL "Netbooting yaboot is not possible, because the > firmware is unable to request files of a specific name (eg > yaboot.conf) from the tftp server. It simply re-sends a BOOTP request, > followed by re-requesting the yaboot binary, and then tries to > interpret that as a yaboot.conf file." > > So is there any way to modify yaboot loader (the binary) in such a way > that it will not require (look for) a configuration file (yaboot.conf) > ? nope. The plan for yaboot 2.0 was to implement its own tftp code and not use OF's. then it can fetch any file it wants regardless of broken crippled firmware. > If this is possible, then we will be able to netboot a pSeries using > yaboot. But unfortunately, we are sys admins, and no programming > backgroud and doesn't know how to do this. Can some one help ? its highly non-trivial. > Also,is it possible to make yaboot binary and yaboot.conf as a single > file and tell yaboot that after a particualr offset, the yaboot.conf > starts and read options from it rather than looking for one over the > network ? also non-trivial. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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