On Wednesday, July 23, 2014 4:25:03 PM UTC-4, William Hermans wrote: > > Yeah, but I'm not loading uboot over the network. Just the kernel and file > system. Plus that is a guide using Ubuntu for which my instructions wont > work on. As I used Debian. > > One curious thing however, and perhaps I am wrong for loading uboot via a > network. I do not use or need a dhcp server for my instructions, and am > thinking a dhcp server is not necessary if you use static IP's. But I am > not 100% sure where, or how uboot would get its IP from if you're loading > it via network. >
Yes, if you set 'serverip' and 'ipaddr' you do not need to run dhcp once U-Boot is running. When AM335x SoCs boot from the network (which is the case for when it's a USB gadget device) a DHCP server _is_ required. > Anyhow, having multiple dhcp servers on the same network can cause > problems which may be difficult to trace down. Even if they are technically > on different subnets, Hence why I do not use a BOOTP/DHCP server. > This is not true, if you configure the dhcp server on your host correctly (which is to say, not to do anything on your normal eth interfaces and only look at the usb network device). -- Tom -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
