Jules Bean wrote: > On Mon, 20 Jul 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > I tcpdump'ed the period while it is waiting, and the SPARC is doing lots > > > of ACK commands, clearly waiting for something. Believing that redhat's > > > tftp was broken, I first updated it, and secondly copied across my debian > > > one, but these didn't fix it. > > > > > > Eventually, on a whim, I noticed that the tftpboot.img is a odd-number of > > > bytes long. I used dd to pad it with zeros to the nearest 4-byte > > > boundary, and tried again. It works! So this appears to be some > > > alignment issue with the SPARC's tftp code. > > > > Can you explain more what you are doing. I may try it too. > > There is probably a neater way, but I did > > dd bs=2516356 if=tftpboot.img of=tftpboot.img.new conv=sync
Congratulations :-))) you fixed the bug I discovered before I released my boot-floppies but never found why tftp didn't work on some of my sparcs !!! Many thanks for your help. I will remember it for the next release. > It's *very* quiet in here at the moment... I guess the debian-sparc guys > are busy at the moment. So, if you're listening, I'm happy to help > out... :-) I was on holiday ;-) Now I'm back, but I have nearly no time to work on debian now :-( I hope I will be able to build new boot disks in 2 or 3 weeks, but I should update my debian mirror before (I'm guessing there are hundreds of MB to download (src+bin) since my last update, one month ago ;-( ). I'd rather like not to maintain kernel / kernel-patches for sparc anymore, due to the lack of time I could spend to debian. However, I would want to continue development on boot-floppies package: I've a good knowledge of it and my 4 sparcs (2 sparc2 & 2 sparcClassic) are good candidates to do some trial during the debugging process. So, if someone wants to take over my kernel-patches-*-sparc package and build & package new kernel (eg. 2.0.35 with turbosparc patch), I will use it in my next boot disks. Regards. -- Eric Delaunay | "La guerre justifie l'existence des militaires. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | En les supprimant." Henri Jeanson (1900-1970)