On Thu, Aug 30, 2001 at 10:47:04AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Well I have a 742 here trying to get linux running on it.
OK. The 742 is basically the VME version of the 715/Scorpio, 725/Spectra which are, or should be, minimally supported. So in theory, it should work. In practice, there may well be glitches like the ones you describe below. > I tried to boot the 742 diskless. It only recognizes rboot protocol, so I > set up the 715 running HP-UX > as the server. There's an rboot daemon available for Linux; if you run Debian, just apt-get install it; if not there's one on the puffin.external.hp.com site somewhere. > Now I'm really confused how the boot sequence runs. > I found a lifimage on the debian server which brings the system up, asking > install questions from a menu, > but i did not succed to mount the nfs root file system, no error message > either. > > Can anybody brief me how to boot a proper diskless system? > > and how rboot, bootp and dhcp need to work together to do so? I just booted a couple of 715s from an rboot server... First of all, you need to specify the machine in the /etc/rbootd.conf file. Looks like you have this working already, but here it is: 08:00:09:35:21:18 guernsey Then you need to set up bootp/dhcp. The dhcpd is capable of serving both; I use bootp. Here's the stanza I used for this machine in /etc/dhcpd.conf: host guernsey { # 715/50 hardware ethernet 08:00:09:35:21:18; fixed-address 15.1.50.253; } Finally, set up NFS. My /etc/exports looks like this: /tftpboot 15.0.0.0/255.0.0.0(rw,no_root_squash) Now my machine attempts to mount /tftpboot/15.1.50.253, so I have to create a directory hierarchy there. Tell all the daemons to reload their configuration files, and you should be set. -- Revolutions do not require corporate support.