On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 06:05:32PM -0500, Susan Kleinmann wrote: > I am trying to install Debian onto a floppy-less CD-ROM-less Shuttle > XPC SS40G with an AMD Athlon installed. > > Following the instructions at: > http://www.debianplanet.org/node.php?id=818 > I obtained the linux.bin and root.bin files from the woody distribution, > (woody/main/disks-i386/current/bf2.4), installed them as suggested, got > the Shuttle to connect to a DHCP server and fetch itself an IP address, > return a boot prompt, and then begin booting. > > Soon thereafter, the boot loader gets stuck, with the following message: > Loading. > 8000 > AX:0208 > BX:0200 > CX:0002 > DX:0000. > 8000 > AX:0208 > ... (repeats) > > At this point, the tftp process begins to record this in syslog: > sent DATA <block: 36, size 512> > timeout: retrying... > > I checked the md5sums of the linux.bin and root.bin files were correct. > > Can anyone offer suggestions as to what I might look at to diagnose this > problem? > > Thanks in advance, > Susan > > P.S. In case it matters: this system comes with a network chip built into > the motherboard, but I also installed a second network card, and that's what > I'm booting with.
Hi Susan, This is a shot in the dark since I don't have any PXE cards installed right now. However, I have done netboot installs for several of my sparcs and ran into a similar problem. The symptom was that after downloading some amount (a power of 2 no less) the download would freeze, and tftpd began logging timeouts. I discovered that this was because the machine attempting to netboot had grabbed an IP address already in use elsewhere on the network! Good luck! -- Nathan Norman - Incanus Networking mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Liberty may be endangered by the abuses of liberty as well as by the abuses of power. -- James Madison
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