Meelis Roos wrote: > This mail is sent here to leave a googlable trace of my solutions to > Indy netboot problems. > > I have a SGI Indy, 100 MHz R4600PC with onboard 10mbps ethernet. It was > running IRIX fine, serving as a X-Terminal (so I knew the networking was > functional). > > I tried to netboot it from a Linux host (running Debian unstable). > > First, bootpd answered with packets that had DF (don't fragment) bit > set. Turning PMTU off in /proc did not seem to help for some reason(???).
It most likely did, the DF bit itself doesn't matter (and remains set for me as well). [snip] > Also, to get any answer back to my Indy at all, I needed to use a > crossover cable to the boot server (with Intel NIC using e100 driver but > that's probably unimportant) because my Trendnet TE100-S55E 5-port > 10/100 switch and Indy don't communicate (Indy doesn't seem to get any > answers, at least in PROM mode). Sounds like this was the root of the problem. > Finally, I was able to do boot -f bootp()/netboot-boot.img and see that > it does not find a working console on the Indy. What exactly was the last output there? Thiemo
