Net Booting IRIX 3.3.2 (for install)

From: David Holland <dholland_at_woh.rr.com>
Date: Wed Jun 23 07:56:18 2004

I don't know what your trying to netboot from..

But general experience says a good ethernet sniffer program on that box
is VERY useful. (ethereal, tcpdump, snoop, etc..) Just watch the
packets, see what the client is asking for, and give it to it.

Presuming you've got those files configured correctly..

My first two guesses would be:

A) You have the respective daemons running?
B) TFTPD running?

If the "netboot server" is a Linux box, there's also some ephemeral
ports voodoo you need to do. (From the Linux/MIPS FAQ:

The kernel download from the TFTP server stops and times out.

This may happen if the TFTP server is using a local port number of 32768
or higher which usually happens if the TFTP server is running Linux 2.3
or higher. This problem may be circumvented by doing a "echo 2048 32767
> /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_local_port_range" on the server.

)


I managed to figure out how to netboot an Indy w/ Irix 6.5 from
a linux box w/ a reasonable amount of time spent in ethereal. (I
suppose I could of read the manuals, but where's the fun in that? )

David


On Wed, 2004-06-23 at 06:56, Benjamin Gardiner wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I have managed to find the tape images for irix 3.3.2 (.tar.gz) but
> unfortuntely I can't work out how to network boot the Personal IRIS.
>
> As far as I can tell I have included the right information in the
> /etc/ethers file and the /etc/bootptab files..
>
> but when I try and start the net boot up and running, it tells me,
>
> couldn't load bootp()192.168.0.2:/video/irix/sa(sash.IP6)
>
> any ideas... I have managed to get network booting working on many
> other platforms but for some reason this is stumping me...
>
> Benjamin
Received on Wed Jun 23 2004 - 07:56:18 BST