[parisc-linux] dumb question of the day

["Pete" <plaven@ozemail.com.au>]

Hi everyone,

I have a 715/64 that I'm trying to boot across the network.

I grabbed the latest base tar ball from the ftp server and 
uncompressed it. 

I grabbed rboot and set it up and didn't work, so I have set bootps 
and tftp according to the howto at http://www.oswg.org/oswg-
nightly/oswg/en_US.ISO_8859-1/articles/parisc-linux/parisc-linux-
boot.html  (very helpful too I might add)

from boot_admin I boot lan, I have tcpdump listening on eth1 where 
the hppa box is connected via aui/TP and UTP cross over.  I can 
see the broadcast and /var/log/messages shows that tftp is looking 
for iplboot, as copied from the tar ball boot dir.

The hp box fails with an error on the console (I have a vga screen 
on the box):

"ERROR: Cannot load IPL, error detected."

Since this is my first time with nfsbooting it's likely I'm not doing 
something right there, ie, I don't have /etc/exports setup.. should I 
od this?

Please, some short pointers for a dummy.. :)  I _so_ want to IRC 
on this box!!  :)

Thanks.

Pete.