On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Thomas Ribbrock <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm busy with giving one of my SGI Indys a new task: An mpd server/audio > player. So far, I've successfully installed Debian Lenny to HD and got > mpd working fine. I then converted the machine to diskless booting. If > I boot the machine manually from the PROM, it boots without a problem > with this command: > > bootp(): append="root=/dev/nfs > nfsroot=192.168.1.1:/export/src/Indy,rsize=8192,wsize=8192 ip=dhcp rw" > > (Note: The rsize/wsize are necessary, as my NFS server (OpenBSD 4.5) is > very unhappy with the default block size) > > So far, so good. Now, I've spent the last hour googling and > experimenting in an effort to get this machine to boot automatically - > but I just cannot find/figure out the correct PROM environment variable > settings. I can get it to boot the tftpimage with > > OSLoadPartition=bootp()192.168.1.1:/ > OSLoadFile Indy.img > > but then, the boot fails as the kernel is missing its root/nfsroot > parameters. I've tried adding the "append" in various places > (OSLoadPartition, OSLoadFile), but appartently either not in the right > places or not in the right syntax. > > Is there anybody on this list who could provide me with a clue (RTFM > pointers very welcome!) as to how I could get this to work? I'd be very > grateful... >
Hi Thomas, There is a recent forum thread at nekochan.net (in the "Hardware" sub-forum, I believe) where a poster has this working. Cheers Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
