I'm trying to run an Nvidia Nforce2-based board diskless. It's a Shuttle
MN31 with Athlon XP.
Following instructions in http://www.openbsdsupport.org for OpenBSD
Diskless setup, I setup a DHCP server, TFTP server, etc. I get pxeboot
downloaded via tftp but it seems Etherboot says "unable to load file."
Here is the output:
Boot from (N)etwork or (Q)uit?
Probing pci nic...
[nforce2]nforce2: MAC Address 00:30:1B:38:DF:56, Searching for server
(DHCP)....
No IP address
..
Me: 192.168.1.21, DHCP: 192.168.1.14, TFTP: 192.168.1.14
Loading 192.168.1.14:/pxeboot ...(PXE)........TFTP download complete, but
Unable to load file.
<sleep>
<abort>
This is mysterious to me. If I substitute boot for pxeboot the PC reacts as
expected (it resets immediately after tftp-ing). So the dhcp and tftp
download by etherboot seem to work.
I'm still undecided if it's pxeboot or etherboot at fault here. Is there a
way to verify if pxeboot gets control? Are there reasons that pxeboot might
be "unable to load file" as far as etherboot is concerned?
I've read some history including 4GB flat memory modes but it doesn't seem
relevent here. I'm using rom-o-matic for etherboot and of couse have
tried with- and without FLATTEN_REAL_MODE.
Thanks for your thoughts
John
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