Re: etherboot woes continue.

[Ken Yap <ken@nlc.net.au>]

>So I've continued to work with another ethernet card... still trying
>to figure things out.
>
>I get (repeatedly):
>
>Loading /usr/tftpboot/kernel.s.1...
>
>on the netbooted machines console
>
>and tcpdump on the server is showing (repeatedly):
>
>16:55:32.683054 out1.2191 > 192.168.255.3.2509: udp 4
>16:55:32.683335 192.168.255.3.2509 > out1.2191: udp 4
>16:55:32.691489 192.168.255.3.2510 > out1.tftp: 46 RRQ "/usr/tftpboot/kernel.
>s.1" [|tftp]
>16:55:32.707699 out1.2193 > 192.168.255.3.2510: udp 4
>16:55:32.707992 192.168.255.3.2510 > out1.2193: udp 4
>16:55:32.708583 192.168.255.3.2511 > out1.tftp: 46 RRQ "/usr/tftpboot/kernel.
>s.1" [|tftp]
>
>... which is giving me tftp log files of:
>
>Dec 30 16:55:32 raid1 tftpd[10451]: 192.168.255.3: read request for /usr/tftp
>boot/kernel.s.1: success
>Dec 30 16:55:32 raid1 tftpd[10453]: 192.168.255.3: read request for /usr/tftp
>boot/kernel.s.1: success
>
>... which likely means that the netbooting computer is rejecting and
>retrying the transfer.  Any ideas?

kernel.s.1 is a tagged image? You did remember to run mknbi-linux on it?
Alternatively, if it's an ELF or a.out image, you did remember to enable
ELF and a.out support in Etherboot?
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