RE: TFTP timeout

[Davide Dao <davide.rao@gsmbox.com>]

                hi

>We  have been trying to setup a diskless  clients with netboot using
>bootp.The problem we have is  that the client cannot boot even though
it
>already received the ip and saw the server. And if got the boot image
form
>the tftpboot directory on the server.

>The problem is after taht it just stayed there and a mesg

>TFTP timeout came out. After a few lines of that, the client dies.

>How to resolve this?Anyone?Any help is really appreciated.

>regards

I got this sort of problem when I forgot to mknbi with the kernel which
I wanted to boot vie network.
You must do that in order to load ke kernel correctly in to memory as
there is no boot loader in you diskless client.
See docomentation in the doc directory for further details.

Ciaps
Dvae

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