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Celcius1
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 10, 2004 1:14 pm    Post subject: Cant net boot an SGI indy, help needed! Reply with quote

following the gentoo mips installation guide, i type in the command

bootp(): root=/dev/ram0

to boot gentoo as i have a windows based TFTP server setup and i get this message

Setting $netaddr to 192.168.20.5 (from server)
File not found on server
Unable to excute bootp():

can someone please tell me what I am doing wrong so I can get it booted and running

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PostPosted: Sun Apr 11, 2004 4:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The error message given to you by the SGI Prom more or less tells you what is wrong -- It's unable to find the file to netboot on your windows-based TFTP server. You'll want to tweak the setup on this tftp server so that it can send the appropriate file to the Indy. As I have no experience in Windiws TFTP servers, this is all I can recommend right now.


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