> Hello. > I am trying to get my PowerMac 5500/225 to netboot using BootP, > TFTP, and a kernel image, but I do not know how. Any help would be > appreciated. I am also trying to get my Beige G3 300 to netboot, and it > fails after loading the kernel image. > Thank you. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Last I checked, the OF MAC address for the Ethernet was different at boot time from when an OS is loaded like Linux or MacOS. This can be seen with sufficient debug in bootpd and looking at /var/log/syslog or /var/log/daemon.log on another debian ( i386 or equiv ). The prob then is that the RARP for bootp has to be dropped for the TFTP to the new MAC address once the kernel has loaded..... kinda difficult to rarp -d in the middle.....
MacOS / Linux MAC address apple 10.1.1.4) at 00:05:02:22:A7:53 [ether] on eth0 BootP/ OF address rarp -s apple 00:A0:40:44:E5:CA At least for my 7300..... I ended up putting the boot images etc onto a Zip and running a small system off that until dpkg-http was installed. Actually I have even run debian on 62M for i386 and 85M disk for PPC. Stuart -- Stuart Andrews Unix Administrator Level 2-4, 810 Elizabeth Street, Waterloo NSW 2017 Ph: +612 8396 3723 Fx: +612 9690 1845
