Subject: Network boot problems
From: Eric Reischer (emr@engr.de.psu.edu)
Date: Sun Oct 29 2000 - 17:53:59 MST
I'm having a small problem that is turning out to be a bigger pain than I
expected. I have an IBM RS/6000 machine that I'm installing Linux on, but
when I try to get it to boot off the network, it contacts my bootp server
(which happens to be an intel Debian box) and starts to download the
file. The strange thing is, it only fully completes the download about 1/4
of the times I try to get it to download. Usually, when I type in 'boot
net' to get it to boot from the network, it loads anywhere between 1500 and
2000 packets, and then stops. About 20 seconds later, it gives me a packet
error (which on IBM machines is just a bunch of numbers) and the network
boot fails. Other times, if I'm lucky, it'll go through fine. This is a
pain because it makes booting kernel images >1Meg really hard because the
bigger it is the more of a chance of it failing part-way through. Anybody
seen this before?
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