I am pleased to announce my first boot of JOS. It sure feels good to see
what JOS looks like. I am using Etherboot, not GRUB. I created a boot disk.
I use TFTP to download jjos-nbi. I'm using the JOS Binary Distribution 1d.

While there were many obstacles to booting JOS across the network, I worked
through each one. The last two are most interesting.

1. The bootptab example in the /doc directory does not work on my machine.
When bf=/tftpboot/jjos-nbi, my JOS machine searches for

/tftpboot/tftpboot/jjos-nbi

I changed the line for my JOS machine from this:

jos:tc=.default:ha=00A024779EF5:ip=10.0.0.5:bf=/tftpboot/jjos-nbi

to this:

jos:tc=.default:ha=00A024779EF5:ip=10.0.0.5:bf=/jjos-nbi

(Of course, I changed the MAC address to match my NIC.)

2. I started bootpd manually. After configuring and re-configuring inetd, I
have been unable to get inetd to start bootpd for my JOS machine. By
starting bootpd manually, I can boot my JOS machine.

Thanks to everyone!


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