From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailserv2.iuinc.com (IDENT:qmailr@mailserv2.iuinc.com [206.245.164.55]) by puffin.external.hp.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA07709 for ; Wed, 29 Mar 2000 11:29:29 -0700 Message-ID: <20000329180613.99367.qmail@hotmail.com> From: "Bas Valkema" To: "Mike Brancato" , References: Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] using lan to boot Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2000 10:27:39 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" List-ID: Hi, I had the same problem, try rbootd (rpm & tar download somewhere on the puffin.external.hp.com site) & install in Linux x86 Next, install HPPA-Linux bootimage in /export/hp/images (I think, look in messagedump (/var/adm/messages in my distribution) & edit /etc/rbootd.conf should work now. bye, BaZ ----- Original Message ----- From: Mike Brancato To: Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2000 1:01 AM Subject: [parisc-linux] using lan to boot > > i played with the 735/125 we have here, and i can't get it to sent any > packets. it has no HD right now. using snoop to monitor network traffic, > we looked to its hardware address. no luck. to go the hardware address, > i type hrdw_addr os something at the boot prompt? we used that HW > address. typing "boot lan..0.0" makes the boot fail. and > there is no network traffic from that machine. when the computer searches > for bootable devices, it only sees P0 which is the floppy. It prints out > liek 5 lines of numbers... 000000 000000 000050 etc... it says boot > failed and stuff and INIT_ENTRY = -7. could anyone explain. we're > perflexed whay lan won't send anything. the externet adapter is flashing > the Tx light though. > > i've got an image prefared, and now i just need to boot to it. > > mike > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - > To unsubscribe: send e-mail to parisc-linux-request@thepuffingroup.com with > `unsubscribe' as the subject.