Well… With a little help from my friends on the list, I finally figured it out.
The problem was that the MinnowBoard firmware is only able to boot UEFI, and I didn’t have my server configured to serve UEFI. After some serious googling, I finally found the Debian packages “di-netboot-assistant” and “debian-installer-9-netboot-amd64” which, between them, automate most of the steps of setting up a UEFI tftp boot server. The instructions in /usr/share/doc/di-netboot-assistant took a bit of head scratching to interpret correctly, but I was eventually able to net-boot the Debian 9.4 installer and get it to run to the end. Good Stuff! Thanks for all the help! Rick On Jul 2, 2018, at 2:47 AM, Rick Thomas <rbtho...@pobox.com> wrote: > > I’m trying to install Debian Linux on a Turbot dual-core, single ethernet. > > I want to network boot (PXE boot) the Turbot into the debian installer. I’ve > set up a TFTPboot server as described in the Debian documentation at > https://wiki.debian.org/PXEBootInstall > I’ve tested it with a Dell laptop, and been able to use it to boot the Debian > installer on the laptop. > > But when I try to PXE boot the Turbot, the screen flashes a few times — way > too fast for me to read anything — and then returns to the BIOS boot menu. > > The Minowboard’s BIOS is version 097, the latest. > > Anybody have a clue? > > ADVthanksANCE, > Rick _______________________________________________ elinux-MinnowBoard mailing list elinux-MinnowBoard@lists.elinux.org http://lists.elinux.org/mailman/listinfo/elinux-minnowboard
