Palmetto netboot instructions

Brad Bishop brad at bwbmail.net
Tue Oct 6 17:05:44 AEDT 2015


Please let me know if you run into any problems with this procedure or have any feedback.  Thanks.

On build system:

1 - pull updates from here: https://github.com/bradbishop/openbmc-1 <https://github.com/bradbishop/openbmc-1>
2 - bitbake obmc-phosphor-image
3 - tmp/sysroots/x86_64-linux/usr/bin/mkimage -A arm -O linux -C none -T ramdisk -a 0x50200000 -d tmp/deploy/images/palmetto/obmc-phosphor-image-palmetto.cpio.gz initrd
4 - scp tmp/deploy/images/palmetto/cuImage <tftp>:/tftpboot
5 - scp tmp/deploy/images/palmetto/initrd <tftp>:/tftpboot


On BMC (uboot shell):

for static ip:
setenv gatewayip=<routers>
setenv netmask=<netmask>
setenv ipaddr=<ip>
setenv serverip=<tftp>
setenv netboot=ncsi\; tftp 0x50000000 /tftpboot/cuImage\; tftp 0x50200000 /tftpboot/initrd\; bootm 0x50000000 0x50200000\;
saveenv
run netboot

for dynamic ip:
setenv serverip=<tftp>
setenv netboot=ncsi\; dhcp\; tftp 0x50000000 /tftpboot/cuImage\; tftp 0x50200000 /tftpboot/initrd\; bootm 0x50000000 0x50200000\;
saveenv
run netboot
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