On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 13:03, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > I hit 'Q' here. > > The 'Q' option is generic in etherboot and it does not do anything sensible > under LinuxBIOS. So you are probably triggering a triple fault again. > It does look like the code you have does not know how to reboot properly > but that is a minor issue.
Okay, sounds fine. > > I'm experiencing other problems with this bios image as well. I can't > > boot of hard drive or off floppy, it justs, for [D]isk boot "probing > > pci disk [IDE] LBA48mode, disk-1... > > Searching for image... > > <abort> > > Probing pci disk... > > [IDE] > > Probing isa disk... > > <sleep> > > Boot from (N)etwork... > > Unless you have an ELF header at the start of your disk that is likely > the culprit. Ummm. okay, so I need to make an elf-enabled floppy disk image? > The simple path is to get etherboot working with an image created by mkelfImage. I agree 8) > > When I replace the BIOS chip back with the AMI original image, I'm able > > to boot from floppy without a problem. > > You have a cluster node with a floppy drive? Only when I pull the blade out and manually hook a floppy drive to it so I can re-flash the bios. But getting back on track, am I doing this sequence improperly? On the boot host... cd /usr/src/linux[whatever] make bzImage [compilecompilecompile] I end up with an arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage bootable image. cp arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage /tftpboot ~/src/mkelfImage-2.5/objdir/sbin/mkelfImage --kernel=/tftpboot/bzImage --output=/tftpboot/test1 I alter dhcpd.conf to have 'filename "test1"' I restart dhcpd, restart the blade. Note the Etherboot header says: Loading Etherboot version: 5.2.4 ROM segment 0x0000 length 0x0000 reloc 0x00000000 CPU 2063mhz Etherboot 4.2.5( (GPL)... Tagged ELF for [IDE][TG3] <-- okay? Relocating _text from... Boot from (N)etwork.... After selecting 'boot from Network' I get _Probing pci nic... [ptg3-5704]Ethernet add... Tigon3 [partno... Link is up.. Searching for server Me: (addresses) Loading 192.168.1.200:test1 (ELF)... done Firmware type: LinuxBIOS _ (note the ' ' before the cursor) - at this point it's hung. Is this the right process? -- -------------------. .----------- Dave Belfer-Shevett \ Conference Management Solutions \ Stonekeep [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ http://www.stonekeep.com \ Consulting ---------------------' 978 239 5902 `------------ _______________________________________________ Linuxbios mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.clustermatic.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios