I recently decided to take an old IPC I had that was running Solaris 2.5 and convert it to Linux. I tried to do a remote boot using the tftpboot.img, but after I type boot net and wait for about five minutes the IPC tells me that the file does not appear to be bootable. I tried to do this same procedure with Red Hat's 5.1 tftpboot.img file, but I get the same results.
Here are some more details of what I did: I setup tftp on another Linux box and added rarp and arp entries for the IPC. I copied the tftpboot.img file to the tftp directory I specified in the init scritpt and created a symbolic link to the file named with the machines hex hardware address and a .SUN4C extension. Details on the IPC: I believe the prom is version 2.09. When I halt the boot process I have to type n or new to get the new openboot prompt. The machine has 32 MB of RAM and a 1.2 GB Disk. I suspect I am doing something wrong. Can anyone offer me any suggestions? If I get the remote boot to work what methods can I use to access the base.tgz file? Thanks, Scott -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
