On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 07:37:57PM -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > I have set up a tftp environment from which I can boot the installation > system on this machine. What do I need to do to tftp a kernel to this > machine and boot it? I obviously can't just send a kernel image to the > machine (I tried). I can boot the tftpboot.img file with no troubles, > but of course that kicks me into the system installer. I just want to > boot the actual installed system via tftp. > > I've found the silotftp.b bootloader and used tftp to get it running, > but it can't seem to access the disk, either. So it really seems like > I'll need to download the whole kernel. > > Of course, even if I manage to do this, who knows if the machine will be > stable or not. I'm starting to think there might be something wrong > with the PCI bus or the IDE controller.
Are you sure that you have the disk setup as Master, and not cable select or something else weird. -- Debian - http://www.debian.org/ Linux 1394 - http://www.linux1394.org/ Subversion - http://subversion.tigris.org/ Deqo - http://www.deqo.com/