|At the moment I am stuck.....
|the ROM image loads from the floppy, it gets an IP address and starts
|downloading the the kernel via tftp then it reboots.
|
|I have run mknbi on a kernel I am already using to boot from floppy and
|mount root via nfs so I am pretty sure the kernels ok.
|
|Any ideas about what is going wrong, or how I can get a better idea of whats
|going wrong?
|
|Its an intel eepro100 NIC btw.
What version Etherboot are you using? There was a bug in older versions
where the eepro100 hardware was not disabled at the end of tftp loading
so was still live and liable to crash the machine when packets came in
and overwrote parts of the kernel in memory. If you are not using the
latest or close to the latest version (4.6.12, 4.7.18), you should be
flogged with wet noodles. :-)
You don't have to compile it yourself, you can get ROM images made on
demand using the web form at http://rom-o-matic.net
Followups set to Etherboot-users mailing list. You should join this list
or be flogged with...
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