[parisc-linux] Correction for the PA-RISC/Linux Boot HOWTO at ESIEE's web site.
Rafael Herrera
raffo@neuronet.pitt.edu
Fri, 11 Jan 2002 10:55:06 -0500
I'm booting a 715/80 workstation using a PC with SuSE 7.2. Trying to
follow the examples to configure bootp/tftp at
http://mkhppa1.esiee.fr/parisc-linux-boot/parisc-linux-boot/preparation.html
I could not get it to boot.
This distribution sets the daemons as follows:
tftp dgram udp wait root /usr/sbin/tcpd in.tftpd -s /tftpboot
bootps dgram udp wait root /usr/sbin/bootpd bootpd -c /tftpboot
This a chroot setup, so the example /etc/bootptab in the web page will
not work.
The configuration that worked for me is the following:
parisc:hd=/:\
:ht=ethernet:\
:ha=0800093BF206:\
:ip=192.168.0.8:\
:bf=lifimage:\
:sm=255.255.0.0:\
:to=7200:
Where the bootable kernel image was the lifimage created using "make
palo" (The web page description is ambiguous as to what image to use:
vmlinux or lifimage)
Also the purpose of the parameter "rp" in the example bootptab is not
clear in the example. Its purpose is to specify a root filesystem to
mount, but the lifimage has that parameter set from palo Makefile.
--
Rafael