Re: PowerPC bootp+tftp Network Boot...

2012-10-26 Thread Rick Thomas
On Oct 25, 2012, at 2:17 PM, Patrick Fitzmorris wrote: > [very clear instructions for booting the Debian installer (or, I guess almost > anything else) via bootp/tftpd.] Thanks, Patrick! That looks like a really interesting test. I'll give it a try soon! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to d

Re: PowerPC bootp+tftp Network Boot: "method 'load' failed 00000300, newer yaboot version, alternate kernel images

2012-10-25 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 02:36:48PM -0700, Patrick Fitzmorris wrote: > Oh! > > That worked perfectly, thank you. > > Is the changelog in question viewable somewhere? > the one I was referring to, bundled into the tarball for 1.3.17 from > yaboot.ozlabs.org, doesn't go past 1.3.13. All the info I h

Re: PowerPC bootp+tftp Network Boot: "method 'load' failed 00000300, newer yaboot version, alternate kernel images

2012-10-25 Thread Patrick Fitzmorris
Oh! That worked perfectly, thank you. Is the changelog in question viewable somewhere? the one I was referring to, bundled into the tarball for 1.3.17 from yaboot.ozlabs.org, doesn't go past 1.3.13. All the info I had on more recent versions came from the project homepage, which as you can probab

Re: PowerPC bootp+tftp Network Boot: "method 'load' failed 00000300, newer yaboot version, alternate kernel images

2012-10-25 Thread Patrick Fitzmorris
Oh, well. I used the bootpd and tftpd that ship with OS X10.5 (not the server edition). If you want to do the same, then do this: Tweak /etc/bootpd.plist* to disable all dhcp features, since your home network probably already has a DHCP server, and Open Firmware only does bootp, prior to version

Re: PowerPC bootp+tftp Network Boot: "method 'load' failed 00000300, newer yaboot version, alternate kernel images

2012-10-25 Thread Rick Thomas
On Oct 25, 2012, at 11:39 AM, Patrick Fitzmorris wrote: (does anyone test the functionality of the ppc netboot images anymore?) Well, I try... I have a number of old PowerPC Macs that I keep just for the purpose. I haven't tried network booting yet. Can you give me some pointers on how

Re: PowerPC bootp+tftp Network Boot: "method 'load' failed 00000300, newer yaboot version, alternate kernel images

2012-10-25 Thread Lennart Sorensen
On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 11:39:22AM -0700, Patrick Fitzmorris wrote: > Attempting to boot a Powerbook over the network has been a frustrating > endeavor. I did it once in the past with this machine, installing > Lenny. It seems little has changed, except that now it doesn't work. > Here's a snippet

PowerPC bootp+tftp Network Boot: "method 'load' failed 00000300, newer yaboot version, alternate kernel images

2012-10-25 Thread Patrick Fitzmorris
Attempting to boot a Powerbook over the network has been a frustrating endeavor. I did it once in the past with this machine, installing Lenny. It seems little has changed, except that now it doesn't work. Here's a snippet of output: Welcome to yaboot version 1.3.13 Enter "help" to get some basic