Subject: Re: diskless boot
To: None <hth@update.uu.se>
From: Robert Swindells <rjs@fdy2.demon.co.uk>
List: port-cats
Date: 02/18/2004 11:45:57
=?iso-8859-1?Q?H=E5kan=20Th=F6rngren?= <hth@update.uu.se> wrote:
>I finally got my cats card into a box, no disks at all connected, just
>a monitor and keyboard (temporarily) and a network card.
>It has Cyclone 0.4 firmware. How do I get it to boot diskless?
>It comes to a boot> prompt, no bootable devices are available
>according to the devices command. The network card is mentioned
>during boot and it shows carrier at the hub it is connected to.
What kind of network card ?
>I stumbled over a debian installation faq for ARM that mentioned
>boot> boot de0:
>Does not work, I tried setting de0: in the boot enviroment variable
>too, but no. Tried many other variants, le0, eth0 etc.. No go.
>It likes to say "No such file or directory"
I think it will only netboot from a network card that uses the 'ne'
driver.
Any cheap 10baseT card using the Realtek RTL8029 should do.
Robert Swindells