> Something went wrong here, I managed to get yaboot loaded as usual, > but when the kernel was being transfered it just hanged. I tried > 3 times and it always hanged at the same packet. That's when I sat > down to write this mail about how I got netbooting working, and > failed to transfer the kernel sarge uses for netinstall.
Funny... I just worked this week on exactly the same thing.
I did get dhcpd.conf (DHCP v3) configured (w/o patching, just examining the patch and using available docs and the site-option-space, similar to somehting I needed for booting using Intel PXE), but eventually ran into the exact same problem; it just did not want to load the kernel from the TFPTd server.
Until I found this:
http://lists.penguinppc.org/yaboot-users/2003/yaboot-users-200307/msg00017.html
Then it hit me that we do not have to wait for yaboot 2 to be released, but that it might very well be possible to patch yaboot to allow for bigger kernels:
--- yaboot-1.3.11/second/fs_of.c 2002-09-15 05:12:33.000000000 +0200 +++ yaboot-1.3.11.new/second/fs_of.c 2004-04-15 11:41:11.000000000 +0200 @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ #include "debug.h"
#define LOAD_BUFFER_POS 0x600000 -#define LOAD_BUFFER_SIZE 0x400000 +#define LOAD_BUFFER_SIZE 0x600000
static int of_open(struct boot_file_t* file, const char* dev_name,
struct partition_t* part, const char* file_name);Lo, and behold, this makes the system boot the debian-installer kernel :)
No more in vain CD burning ... now I just boot debian-installer from a secondary (builder) machine, which has the latest nightly available automatically:
device=enet:<secondary ip address> partition=0 timeout=100 init-message="Debian GNU/Linux Network boot" default=install
image=vmlinux
initrd=initrd.gz
label=install
initrd-size=8192
append="init=/linuxrc"
read-onlyRegards,
Pepijn.
P.S.
I also tried starting installation from a USB key, and although it seems (after device investigations through OpenFirmware) that it does start yaboot, the end result is just a black screen and endless activity on the stick. I tried this both with a 'virgin' VFAT system (factory default) and with a HFS partition on the stick. However, no luck.
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