On Sun, 29 Oct 2000, Eric Reischer wrote: > I'm having a small problem that is turning out to be a bigger pain than I > expected. I have an IBM RS/6000 machine that I'm installing Linux on, but > when I try to get it to boot off the network, it contacts my bootp server > (which happens to be an intel Debian box) and starts to download the > file. The strange thing is, it only fully completes the download about 1/4 > of the times I try to get it to download. Usually, when I type in 'boot > net' to get it to boot from the network, it loads anywhere between 1500 and > 2000 packets, and then stops. About 20 seconds later, it gives me a packet > error (which on IBM machines is just a bunch of numbers) and the network > boot fails. Other times, if I'm lucky, it'll go through fine. This is a > pain because it makes booting kernel images >1Meg really hard because the > bigger it is the more of a chance of it failing part-way through. Anybody > seen this before?
Is this on a heavily loaded network? TFTP loaders in boot monitors may have limited support to resolve Ethernet collisions. Try moving the machines to a separate network segment. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds