Re: booting an apple g4 from network

2006-02-23 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 23:56 +0100, Jan-David Salchow wrote: > Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > There are several ways. > > > The first issue you'll encounter is the DHCP problem. Apple firmware > > will happily DHCP to obtain an IP address and TFTP down a file if you > > t

Re: booting an apple g4 from network

2006-02-23 Thread Jan-David Salchow
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There are several ways. > The first issue you'll encounter is the DHCP problem. Apple firmware > will happily DHCP to obtain an IP address and TFTP down a file if you > tell it to do so explicitely (providing the server address and file name >

Re: booting an apple g4 from network

2006-02-22 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 13:49 +0100, Jan-David Salchow wrote: > hi > > i'm trying to boot an apple g4 from network via dhcp/tftp. i get an > yaboot command prompt, when bootin from the openfirmware prompt, but > it don't work with just pressing n. i heard some mysterious things > about patching the

booting an apple g4 from network

2006-02-22 Thread Jan-David Salchow
hii'm trying to boot an apple g4 from network via dhcp/tftp. i get an yaboot command prompt, when bootin from the openfirmware prompt, but it don't work with just pressing n. i heard some mysterious things about patching the dhcpd ... does someone know something more specific?jan-david salchow