Re: Weird TFTP Problems while booting an SGI Indy

[Klaus Naumann <spock@mgnet.de>]

On Sat, 16 Jun 2001, Erich Schubert wrote:

> I get some very irritation Problems while booting an indy from network.
> BootP and TFTP are setup (on a debian x86 box) and appear to work.
> (tftp to the local machine does work)
> 
> booting the indy via tftp fails after the transmission of the first
> Block of the Kernel.
> 
> ---
> 
> i'm running 2.4.5 on my server box, and i did do
> "echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_no_pmtu_disc" (otherwise i'd get an
> error even earlier)
> 
> when i tell the indy to
> # boot -f bootp()vmlinux init=/bin/sh nfsroot=10.0.0.1:/home/indy/indy

Hi,

Can you try:

>> bootp():vmlinux init=/bin/sh nfsroot=10.0.0.1:/home/indy/indy

and see if that works ?

	HTH, Klaus

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