From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by neteng.engr.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id QAA00409; Tue, 8 Apr 1997 16:49:39 -0700 Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) id QAA19043 for linux-list; Tue, 8 Apr 1997 16:48:55 -0700 Received: from soyuz.wellington.sgi.com (soyuz.wellington.sgi.com [134.14.64.194]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/960327.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id QAA19031 for ; Tue, 8 Apr 1997 16:48:51 -0700 Received: from windy.wellington.sgi.com by soyuz.wellington.sgi.com via ESMTP (940816.SGI.8.6.9/940406.SGI) id LAA24841; Wed, 9 Apr 1997 11:48:26 +1200 Received: (alambie@localhost) by windy.wellington.sgi.com (950413.SGI.8.6.12/8.6.9) id LAA08913; Wed, 9 Apr 1997 11:48:25 +1200 From: "Alistair Lambie" Message-Id: <9704091148.ZM9065@windy.wellington.sgi.com> Date: Wed, 9 Apr 1997 11:48:25 +0000 In-Reply-To: Mike Shaver "It booooooooooots!" (Apr 9, 10:27am) References: <199704082223.SAA03675@neon.ingenia.ca> X-Mailer: Z-Mail (3.2.3 08feb96 MediaMail) To: Mike Shaver , linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Subject: Re: It booooooooooots! Cc: kneedham@ottawa.sgi.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk On Apr 9, 10:27am, Mike Shaver wrote: > Subject: It booooooooooots! > Sending BOOTP and RARP requests............ > > Doesn't seem to want to find the server again for the NFS root thing, > but that's probably a config problem. > I used to have that...you probably haven't got a rarp server set up, so it can't find its address. One of the things David was going to add was that ability to read it out of NVRAM...but that wasn't high on the priority list! For now, the only way is to have a rarp server. The other way is to have the root file system on hard disk....but to do that you need to boot linux and copy it across. Kind of the chicken and the egg situation! > _Now_ we're ready to rock... > Did you get my root filesystem etc off http://reality.sgi.com/ariel/alambie. This should give you the bits you need to get multiuser (init), set up networking and mount disks. Cheers, Alistair -- Alistair Lambie alambie@wellington.sgi.com Silicon Graphics New Zealand SGI Voicemail: 56791 Level 5, Walsh Wrightson Tower, Ph: +64-4-802 1455 94-96 Dixon St, Wellington, NZ Fax: +64-4-802 1459