Network booting a p630 using tftp & dhcpd

[Anton Blanchard]

Hi,

> I recently built a "zImage" for the first time on a Pentium III and
> installed tftp & dhcpd on it. After putting the zImage in the
> "/tftpboot" directory, I tried to network boot the ppc64 (a p630-6E4)
> at the firmware level. Here is the firmware output I got:

...

> BOOTP: S=1   BOOTP R=6
> FILE: zImage
> BOOTP: read-first-block failed: 4
> BOOTP ERROR: TFTP of first block failed, ABORT
>         !20A80005!

Looking for any tftp error messages in /var/log and also taking a dump
of the network traffic with tcpdump would be useful. My guess is the
client is trying to get a file that does not exist on the server.

Anton

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