Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Feb 2000 13:18:41 +0100 | From | Patrick Mau <> | Subject | [Semi-OT] Which kernel image to use for net-boot ? |
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Hello all,
maybe this is the wrong forum for this question, but I would really appreciate if someone could help me solving the following:
I have a eepro100+ NIC which has this PXE boot feature, so I set up a bootp and dhcp-server und also configured tftp.
When I try to netboot my client-machine, it successfully gets its IP address and the NIC shows the loading of the kernel image via tftp. After this the machine just hangs.
I used etherboot-4.4.3 which has netboot-0.8.1 as a sub-package. I prepared my kernel image which 'mknbi-linux' as mentioned in the documentation.
The funny thing is that when I _don't_ use mknbi-linux, I can see the 'Loading.' message from the floppy boot-loader.
Mayne mknbi-linux is not modifying the kernel image corectly so that it doesn't have the correct entrypoint for booting.
Are there important changes to the startup-code that netboot doesn't know about ?
What kind of modifications are needed to get a bootable kernel-image ?
I _really_ appreciate any help, I studied etherboot, NILO, and various mailing lists but found nothing.
thanks in advance, Patrick
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