On Mon, 24 Aug 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: > I am doing some work on "Diskless XTerminals" > (http://people.delphi.com/sjc/linux) > I decided to give it a try with my SUN IPC. > To do this I need a custom kernel so I built one with NFSROOT and bootp > both on. > > I did a make vmlinux in the kernel TLD mostly because I have found > "make zImage" and "make bzImage" to NOT work on the Sparc :( and > when i built my custom kernel (which I am currently using) on the sparc > I did a "make vmlinux" to make it... > > I rdev'd it to use /dev/nfs and placed it in /boot/ then made the > proper sym link so that my IPC could find it... > I used the exact same name as tftpboot.img used when I installed > Debian on my IPC...used the same IP adress et al > > I type "boot net" on the IPC and it loads the image....I see the hex numbers > scroll up then it stops (like it finished loading) then it just sits there > > am I doing this wrong? > > I thought if I just built a kernel and placed it there it would load? is > tftpboot.img really anything more than a kernel and a initial ram > disk? > > any help is apreciated >
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