[parisc-linux] HP712/60 Hang when booting over the network

Matthew Wilcox willy@debian.org
Sat, 1 Sep 2001 16:27:25 +0100


On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 02:45:25PM +0200, Andreas Härtel wrote:
> Kernel: partition 0 file /vmlinux
> Ramdisk: partition 0 file /ramdisk
> Warning: kernel name doesn't end with 32 or 64... Guessing Annoyance:
> Firmware
> does not support PDV_MODEL_CAPABILITIES cell
> 32
> 
> ERROR: Read from boot device failed (status = -3).
> byteio_read: seekread() returned -1 expected 2048
> 
> ERROR: Read from boot device failed (status = -3).
> byteio_read: seekread() returned -1 expected 2048
> Couldn't grok your kernel executable format
> failed to load kernel
> 
> ---snip---

That's very strange.  Can you tcpdump to see what packets are going
across the wire?  It almost looks as if your tftpd died halfway through
the transfer.

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