[Soekris] net4521 boot problem

[Bill Maas]

On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 20:07 +0530, dinakar wrote:
> Hi,
> I am trying to load debian onto net4521. The system is stuck after
> this point. Any pointers would be helpful.
> 
> > boot f0
> 
> NSC DP83815/DP83816 Fast Ethernet UNDI, v1.03
> Copyright (C) 2002, 2003 National Semiconductor Corporation 
> All rights reserved.
> 
> Pre-boot eXecution Environment  PXE-2.0 (build 082)
> Copyright (C) 1997-2000  Intel Corporation
> 
> 
> CLIENT MAC ADDR: 00 00 24 C4 64 28
> CLIENT IP: 192.168.0.127  MASK: 255.255.255.0  DHCP IP: 192.168.0.53
> GATEWAY IP: 192.168.0.1
> 

You really should provide more info, like:

- which tftpd program are you using
- the contents of dhcpd.conf
- the contents of [x]inetd.conf or the the tftpd 'default' file
- the contents of pxelinux.cfg/{default,ip} file

I tried running tftpd-hpa from /etc/inetd.conf, but it gave trouble (it
did show the TFTP prompt though). So I run it as a daemon instead, and
evrything works fine:

/etc/default/tftpd-hpa:

#Defaults for tftpd-hpa
RUN_DAEMON="yes"
OPTIONS="-l -s /tftpboot"
#OPTIONS="-l -s /var/lib/tftpboot"


As another fine example of what can go wrong (and of my own stupidity at
that time), I once set the wrong serial port in the PXE config, and
everything booted as it should have, except I never knew..


Bill


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>  
> Regards,
> Dinakar 
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