Subject: Re: Soekris 4801 craziness: pxeboot
To: David Young <dyoung@pobox.com>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
List: tech-embed
Date: 10/15/2005 10:13:25
In message <20051015083314.GM1513@che.ojctech.com>, David Young writes:
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>On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 10:20:27PM -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>> I'm going slightly insane trying to get NetBSD working on a Soekris
>> 4801. I'll post the different problems separately.
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>> First, I can't get PXEboot working. It downloads the first-stage
>> bootstrap (pxeboot_ia32.bin), but it can't seem to load
>> netbsd-INSTALL. tcpdump shows that it's being requested:
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>PXE-booting NetBSD on Soekris boards has been broken since sometime after
>NetBSD 1.6. I just got it to work the other day with the attached patch.
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Still not working quite right. How do I set the serial console speed
for pxeboot_com0? It looked like a compile-time option I wasn't sure
where to set. For obvious reasons, I'd like to set it to whatever
speed I'm running my Soekris console at; for equally obvious reasons,
I'd like that as fast as possible.
--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb