On 22-Nov-1999 Zygo Blaxell wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Nov 1999 05:17:59 +1100 (EST), David Murn
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> as you may remember from my last post, we recently bought a
>>couple of Multias. We're trying to install debian on these machines, on a
>>9gb scsi drive, however these systems do not have floppy drives in them.
>>It has been possible to boot the machine over the network, however we have
>>had no luck with doing much with it. The netboot worked fine, then
>>mounted it's rootdisk over NFS, but failed to do a number of things due to
>>missing features in the kernel (loopback, etc).
>
> Hmmm...I've successfully made both Red Hat and Debian boot floppy kernels
> work with MILO, although the Red Hat floppies required major surgery
> (none of which required anything that you don't get with Windows95 and
> a Red Hat CD) before they would co-operate. This was enough to use the
> Multia to rebuild a kernel, although this takes more than four hours
> per attempt and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.
>
> My Multia has only a floppy drive, no hard disk. I've never made network
> booting work (root-on-NFS works, of course, but not kernel-over-TFTP or
> anything like it).
>
> Does your Multia have an ARC console? You might be able to get away
> with pre-loading the hard disk on an i386 machine. ARC boots off of
> a MS-DOS partition with a normal Windows NT/Alpha executable (MILO)
> that can be loaded by ARC. From MILO you can load the kernel from any
> ext2/MS-DOS/iso9660 partition or drive, and from there you can do...well,
> anything you like. ;-)
>
>>Secondly, is there anything special you need to do to make milo use a
>>vmlinux.gz file? We're currently playing with aboot, but if we can get
>>milo to work it would be useful.
>
> As long as the file name ends in '.gz' I think MILO should be able to
> handle this automagically. The '.gz' may not even be necessary, either.
>
>>Thirdly, can anyone tell me where to get a tool to make the vmlinux file
>>net-bootable? There must be a tool out there somewhere to do it, since
>>we've got a pre-made image which is net-bootable. Anyone know what/where
>>it is?
>
> I'd like to know too. ;-)
>
>>Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.
>
>
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