Re: Yaboot & tftp Boot
Does i must use bootp or can i assign server IP directly on yaboot.conf ??
JP
Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 24, 2000, FASSINO Jean-Philippe
> <jeanphilippe.fassino@cnet.francetelecom.fr> wrote:
>
> >Just a small question,
> >How configure Yaboot for boot over tftp ?
>
> Several things:
>
> - Configure your bootp/tftp server so that it assigns an IP address
> to the machine and download yaboot binary to the client as the default
> boot image.
>
> - On the tftp server, along with yaboot itself, put yaboot.conf, the kernel
> and eventually the ramdisk
>
> - In yaboot.conf, use path of the form "enet:file" (or "enet:0,file" if you
> are having problems with the first one).
>
> Example of yaboot.conf I use for netboot:
>
> image = enet:vmlinux
> label = linux
> initrd = enet:ramdisk.image.gz
> initrd-size = 8192
>
> If you want the kernel itself to use bootp to get an IP address and to
> boot over
> an NFS root, then you have to read the corresponding kernel docs and compile
> the proper support in it (network autoconfig/bootp and nfs/nfs-root)
> You may also have to set the no_root_squash option in your NFS /etc/exports.
>
> An example /etc/bootptab I use:
>
> .default: \
> :dn=mipsys.com:\
> :ds=192.168.1.2:\
> :gw=192.168.1.1:\
> :sm=255.255.255.0:
>
> imac:ht=ethernet:ha=000A278EB19C:tc=.default:ip=192.168.1.16:hn:\
> :bf=/tftpboot/yaboot:bs=auto:sa=192.168.1.17:
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