jrmosier in: https://sourceforge.net/forum/message.php?msg_id=4786276 at SourceForge.net wrote: > Thanks so much for the response. I have had several private responses with > things to try and after about 10 hours of trial and error, it boots. > > This is an older hardware version and turns out that the key was to enable the > alternate boot host on the routers dhcp server with the following option: > > boot_file dongle.bin > siaddr 192.168.0.200 > ... > However, no matter what I name the file, it will not read the config file. > I've even tried different version of mvpmc with the same results.
The easiest way to definitively determine what file name it is trying to retrieve is to look at the TFTP server logs. > ...I would like to include a config something like this.. > > # Setup time, date, hostname > TZ='EST+5EDT,M3.2.0/2,M11.1.0/2' > export TZ The typically recommended construct is: # set time zone echo "TZ=EST+5EDT,M4.1.0/2,M10.5.0/2; export TZ" > /etc/shell.config . /etc/shell.config Though I'm not sure why, as I don't know if anything actually uses /etc/shell.config. I would think it is only relevant that TZ is set in the environment where mvpmc gets launched. > rdate -s clock.unc.edu If you're going to use a remote server for time, might as well use NTP. You can do that with: NTP=pool.ntp.org or substitute a more geographically specific server. See http://www.pool.ntp.org/ and http://mvpmc.wikispaces.com/timeserver But note this trick won't work if your startup script is loaded from an SMB share or the fallback TFTP server address. Probably an oversight in the design of the rcS script. It should work fine in the typical case where the config is loaded from a TFTP server. > HNAME=`MyMVP` ; export HNAME I don't think you want to use back-ticks instead of single quotes there. You can set this via DHCP. The Dnsmasq examples previously posted will accomplish setting the host name. > # Mount NAS SMB Share > mkdir /music > mount.cifs //192.168.0.200/store/Music /music Or better... mkdir /music && mount.cifs //192.168.0.200/store/Music /music ...not that it matters much. I take it you're satisfied with the command line options passed to mvpmc in the default startup script: mvpmc -c ${TFTP} --startup setup --emulate ? & as you didn't include one in your script. -Tom ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Mvpmc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mvpmc-users mvpmc wiki: http://mvpmc.wikispaces.com/
