User:Tonyr/Journal/Sep07

06Sep07

Netboot Revisited
Vagrant got the common infrastructure ppc netboot set up, and we tested it on a G3 iMac in the Mac area. With a little coxing and head scratching we got it to find yaboot and yaboot.conf, but after that the process couldn't find any of the other boot files. I'll transcribe the boot trace as best I can here.

<in OpenFirmware>
> boot enet:0,ubuntu-installer\feisty-ppc\yaboot
CLIENT: 00039315657e 192.168.2.128
SERVER: 00163e6c369e 192.168.2.29
<and some other stuff that winked in before switching to...>

<yaboot monitor>
Transfer FILE: /boot.msg
FTP ERROR response 1 File not foundWelcome to yaboot version 1.3.13
Enter "help" to get some basic usage information
boot: <cr>
Please wait, loading kernel...

CLIENT: 00039315657e 192.168.2.128
SERVER: 00163e6c369e 192.168.2.29
Transfer FILE: /vmlinux
TFTP ERROR response 1 File not found
Can't read Elf  e_ident/e_type/e_machine info
boot: