On Sun, 21 Nov 1999 05:17:59 +1100 (EST), David Murn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> as you may remember from my last post, we recently bought a
>couple of Multias. We're trying to install debian on these machines, on a
>9gb scsi drive, however these systems do not have floppy drives in them.
>It has been possible to boot the machine over the network, however we have
>had no luck with doing much with it. The netboot worked fine, then
>mounted it's rootdisk over NFS, but failed to do a number of things due to
>missing features in the kernel (loopback, etc).
Hmmm...I've successfully made both Red Hat and Debian boot floppy kernels
work with MILO, although the Red Hat floppies required major surgery
(none of which required anything that you don't get with Windows95 and
a Red Hat CD) before they would co-operate. This was enough to use the
Multia to rebuild a kernel, although this takes more than four hours
per attempt and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone.
My Multia has only a floppy drive, no hard disk. I've never made network
booting work (root-on-NFS works, of course, but not kernel-over-TFTP or
anything like it).
Does your Multia have an ARC console? You might be able to get away
with pre-loading the hard disk on an i386 machine. ARC boots off of
a MS-DOS partition with a normal Windows NT/Alpha executable (MILO)
that can be loaded by ARC. From MILO you can load the kernel from any
ext2/MS-DOS/iso9660 partition or drive, and from there you can do...well,
anything you like. ;-)
>Secondly, is there anything special you need to do to make milo use a
>vmlinux.gz file? We're currently playing with aboot, but if we can get
>milo to work it would be useful.
As long as the file name ends in '.gz' I think MILO should be able to
handle this automagically. The '.gz' may not even be necessary, either.
>Thirdly, can anyone tell me where to get a tool to make the vmlinux file
>net-bootable? There must be a tool out there somewhere to do it, since
>we've got a pre-made image which is net-bootable. Anyone know what/where
>it is?
I'd like to know too. ;-)
>Thanks in advance for any help you can offer.
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