<span class="gmail_quote"></span>Hi,<br><div style="direction: ltr;"><br>It's been some time since I asked this question. But could test now only.<br><br>I have tried netbooting an OpenPower 710 in the way described below using the yaboot at the Fedora Dev link in the same mail. I was not successfull in netbooting.
<br><br>Here is what happens ...<br><br>------ x ----------------- x ---------------------------- x --------------------------- x -----------------------<br><br>boot: rhel3
<br>Please wait, loading kernel... <br> <br>BOOTP: chosen-network-type = ethernet,100,rj45,full <br>BOOTP: server IP =
<a href="http://0.0.0.0" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">0.0.0.0</a> <br>BOOTP: requested filename = \ppc\vmlinux <br>BOOTP: client IP =
<a href="http://0.0.0.0" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">0.0.0.0</a> <br>
BOOTP: client HW addr = 0 2 55 d3 df b7 <br>BOOTP: gateway IP = <a href="http://0.0.0.0" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">0.0.0.0</a>
<br>BOOTP: device /pci@800000020000003/pci@2,2/ethernet@1 <br>
BOOTP: loc-code U787E.001.1234567-P2-C2-T1 <br> <br> <br>BOOTP R = 1 BOOTP S = 2
<br>FILE: /ppc/vmlinux <br>FINAL Packet Count = 10906 <br>FINAL File Size = 5583409 bytes. <br>load-base=0x4000
<br>real-base=0xc00000 <br> Elf32 kernel loaded... <br><br> ------ x ----------------- x ---------------------------- x --------------------------- x -----------------------<br>
<br>It just hangs after the "Elf32 kernel loaded ..." message. I am trying to install OS on the system via netboot so using the "netboot.img" shipped on the RHEL media. If I use the "netboot.img" as the "file-name" in the DHCP Server conf file, then the system successfully boots to installation screens. So I think the problem is with booting via yaboot only.
<br><br>Does any one got a solution for this ?<br><br>- Naveen <br><br><div></div><div style="direction: ltr;"><span class="q"><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/23/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Paul Nasrat</b> <<a href="mailto:pnasrat@redhat.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
pnasrat@redhat.com</a>> wrote:</span></span></div><div style="direction: ltr;"><span class="e" id="q_10abcbc4fefc6a9c_2"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 19:45 +0530, Naveen wrote:<br>
> Hi,<br>><br>> I have seen some mail exchanges on a patch to fix the Netbooting issue<br>> on IBM pSeries. Do we have a usable yaboot binary now which addresses<br>> this issue ?<br><br>You can use arch/bazaar/rsync to grab the yaboot
1.3.x branch and build,<br>or if you uses Fedora Core the rawhide RPMS have the patch - you'll need<br>to run addnote on the yaboot binary.<br><br>You can also grab from here:<br><br><a href="http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/ppc/ppc/chrp/yaboot" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/ppc/ppc/chrp/yaboot</a><br><br>You'll need to set dhcp with a next-server and filename directive to<br>point to tftp for yaboot. For the yaboot.conf it expects it to be
<br>in /etc if you are running tftpd -s /tftpboot you can just have a<br>layout:<br><br>/tftpboot/etc/yaboot.conf<br>/tftpboot/yaboot<br>/tftpboot/ppc/vmlinux<br>/tftpboot/ppc/initrd.img<br><br>and a yaboot.conf entry like
<br><br>image=/ppc/vmlinux<br> label=linux<br> initrd=/ppc/initrd.img<br> append="ramdisk_size=8192"<br> read-only<br><br>Some caveats - old rs6k firmware (eg 43P) requires a static arp entry on
<br>the tftp server else arp timeout interrupts tftp download. File size no<br>bigger than 6M. Some old firmware may need ln -s etc/yaboot.conf etc\<br>\yaboot.conf as they get path munging wrong (IIRC).<br><br>Paul<br>
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