Re: BOOTP record too large

["Crispin Murphy" <crispin@myra.com>]

Either remove some of your bootp records that you don't absolutely need (such
as DNS, default gateway, etc.) or get DHCP.  Also, you can't use Sun's
proprietary bootparamd, so don't bother.

Crispin

Joe Griffin wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I created a floppy.load.pre and a bin32/eepro100.lzrom on
> one system and would like to boot another system using BOOTP.
> I believe that everything is set up correctly.  When I
> bring up the second system from floppy I get:
> ================================================
> ... Lines deleted ...
> eeprom[6] = 4701
> Me: 192.168.2.26, Server: 192.168.2.27
> Loading /tftpboot/vmlinuz <sleep>
> <sleep>
> <sleep>
> <sleep>
> <sleep>
> (NBI)... done
>
> Linux Net Boot Image Loader Version 0.8.1 (netboot)
> Copyright....
> Copyright....
>
> BOOTP record too large
> <sleep>
> <abort>
> ================================================
>
> To avoid the "BOOTP record too large" message,
> should I modify "first-linux.h":
>
> #define MAX_BOOTP_LEN      512            /* Maximum length of bootp
> record */
>
> And rebuild?  Is there any way I can find out how
> long the record wanted to be?  Should I jsut change
> the 512 to 1024 and rebuild?
>
> TIA,
> Joe Griffin
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