[parisc-linux] Network bootproblem with 712/80

[Helge Deller]

On Thursday 20 December 2001 16:15, Richard Hirst wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 14, 2001 at 04:11:37PM +0200, Tommi Aihkisalo wrote:
> > Hello all!
> >
> > I am having a problem with my 712/80 when booting with bootp/tftp. With
> > some effort I got it requesting kernel image (lifimage) over the network.
> > The download starts but almost the same time it ends and it retries it
> > over and over again. With Weird-solution's bootp and tftp server I can
> > see that the download starts many times but all of them results error.
> > When using the RedHat's bootp/tftp, the tcpdump shows (what I have
> > understood from the output) that the HP is querying a file of name '.'
> > (dot), this is quite strange...

Hi Tommi,

did you tried the newest versions of tftp-server on RH ?
AFAIR the tftp-servers in 7.0 and 7.1 were broken and I fixed them 
during my time at RedHat.

Greetings,
Helge