Hi Ben, On 25 Jun, this message from Benjamin Herrenschmidt echoed through cyberspace: >>I had tried your guide too, Ethan, but it didnt work the same way Ron >>describes it here (on a TiBook). >> >>I had first tried with a pure bootp server, since OF should fall back to >>using bootp if DHCP didn't work. No dice... >> >>I then tried with a dhcp server, for which I got the same log entries as >>Ron. And it didn't want to netboot.... >> >>Gave up on netbooting.... but I may try again with standards docs at >>hand and a sniffer to find out what's up. > > There is a known problem that you may be encountering: one some > recent Apple boxes, when OF has used the gmac chip, it puts the > PHY in such a state that the kernel driver can't find it.
Umm, no. The problem for me was that while still in OF, the box doesn't succeed in doing bootp/dhcp/whatever to boot off the net. This is not running a kernel yet; I'm still in OF land at that point. Michel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michel Lanners | " Read Philosophy. Study Art. 23, Rue Paul Henkes | Ask Questions. Make Mistakes. L-1710 Luxembourg | email [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.cpu.lu/~mlan | Learn Always. "
