[Soekris] net4521 boot problem

[Bill Maas]

On second thought, it doesn't look like PXE is running at all. Does your
NIC support PXE and is it enabled in the BIOS?

Bill

On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 18:10 +0100, Bill Maas wrote:
> 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
> 
> 
> > 
> > 
> >  
> > Regards,
> > Dinakar 
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