Kernel Wont Boot on I2 - Not the kernel!

Kernel Wont Boot on I2 - Not the kernel!

[Ian Chilton]

Hello,

Just been looking into the problem more.

My Indy and Sparc boxes netboot fine, so server seems ok

My I2 boots an old 2.4.0-test9 kernel fine

But try to boot a new kernel on the I2, get this:

>> bootp():/vmlinux                 
Setting $netaddr to 192.168.0.13 (from server )
Obtaining /vmlinux from server                 
  /                           
[and stops there]

I thought this was the kernel, but I just tried Flo's (lolo) working
I2 kernel and it does exactly the same!!


Server is showing this:

Dec 17 01:54:48 slinky dhcpd: BOOTREQUEST from 08:00:69:08:9d:ec via
eth0
Dec 17 01:54:48 slinky dhcpd: BOOTREPLY for 192.168.0.13 to dale
(08:00:69:08:9d:ec) via eth0
Dec 17 01:54:48 slinky in.tftpd[5858]: connect from dale.ichilton.local
Dec 17 01:54:48 slinky tftpd[5859]: tftpd: trying to get file:
vmlinux-dale 
Dec 17 01:54:48 slinky tftpd[5859]: tftpd: serving file from
/export/tftpboot 
[root@slinky:/export/tftpboot]# ls -la vmlinux-dale 
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           19 Dec 17 01:51 vmlinux-dale ->
mips/vmlinux-2.4.16


End of tcpdump is:

02:01:09.797242 dale.ichilton.local.15677 > slinky.ichilton.local.2052:
udp 6
02:01:09.797289 slinky.ichilton.local.2052 > dale.ichilton.local.15677:
udp 516
02:01:09.798218 dale.ichilton.local.15677 > slinky.ichilton.local.2052:
udp 6
02:01:09.798265 slinky.ichilton.local.2052 > dale.ichilton.local.15677:
udp 516
02:01:09.799190 dale.ichilton.local.15677 > slinky.ichilton.local.2052:
udp 6
02:01:09.799235 slinky.ichilton.local.2052 > dale.ichilton.local.15677:
udp 516
02:01:09.800168 dale.ichilton.local.15677 > slinky.ichilton.local.2052:
udp 6
02:01:09.800213 slinky.ichilton.local.2052 > dale.ichilton.local.15677:
udp 516
02:01:09.860624 dale.ichilton.local.15677 > slinky.ichilton.local.2052:
udp 6
02:01:11.574420 arp who-has dale.ichilton.local tell
slinky.ichilton.local
02:01:12.574416 arp who-has dale.ichilton.local tell
slinky.ichilton.local
02:01:13.574414 arp who-has dale.ichilton.local tell
slinky.ichilton.local
02:01:14.574427 arp who-has dale.ichilton.local tell
slinky.ichilton.local
02:01:15.574423 arp who-has dale.ichilton.local tell
slinky.ichilton.local
02:01:16.574414 arp who-has dale.ichilton.local tell
slinky.ichilton.local



Anyone any ideas?


Thanks

Ian

Re: Kernel Wont Boot on I2 - Not the kernel!

[Ian Chilton]

Hello,

Solved - it was a combination of needing rarp populating with the I2's
mac due to an I2 firmware bug and also me forgetting console=ttyS0 :)


Bye for Now,

Ian



Ian Chilton
E-Mail: ian@ichilton.co.uk
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