[Soekris] Loading Linux Image on NET4526 - Part 2

[Brian Candler]

On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 04:21:58PM -0500, David Burke wrote:
>    I now have another problem.  Below is a dump from TFTPD32.  I believe
>    the errors associated with the file "pxelinux.cfg" are ok since no
>    errors are shown when it gets to "pxelinux.cfg/default".  But I am not
>    sure about the errors shown below that.  I don't know what the file is
>    "linux.com" shown at the bottom of the TFTPD32 dump below.

What does your pxelinux.cfg/default file contain? It looks like you've told
it to fetch a file called "linux.com", but haven't created this file in your
tftp server.

>    For reference, I have placed my full Linux image (which I have named
>    image.img) in the directory "C:\Abyss Web Server\htdocs" but I am not
>    sure if this is correct or not.

What do you mean by a "full Linux image", and how did you create it?

pxebooting requires a Linux *kernel* only (or a Linux kernel plus a Linux
initramdisk; the latter is a gzipped cpio archive for the root filesystem
for relatively recent 2.6 kernels)

Hmm, I guess you're using the files from there:

http://dl.metrix.net/support//pxeboot/tftpboot/

In this case, you should have a file "vmlinuz-2.4.22-pebble" in the top
level of your tftp directory, and pxelinux.cfg/default should say

SERIAL 0 19200
DEFAULT /vmlinuz-2.4.22-pebble console=ttyS0,19200,n8 initrd=initrd.img ramdisk_size=8192 root=/dev/ram0

Also you should have a file 'initrd.img' at the top of your tftp server,
which should be one of these:
http://dl.metrix.net/support//pxeboot/initrd/

There are more detailled instructions at the bottom of this page:
http://dl.metrix.net/support//pxeboot/

Brian.