Multia netbooting issues

[Rob Byrnes]

Hey gang,

I have a bunch of Alpha's and a Multia (oh joy) that I am trying to get
going.

It is diskless (completely) and I think I have set up my server correctly.
The server rund Debian Woody (testing) and has tftpd, dhcp, nfsboot,
nfs-common and nfs-user-server packages.

I have downloaded the tftpboot.img file from the debian-stable archives and
put it into the /tftpboot directory. The Multia boots, downloads the
tftpboot.img file, and then resets itself back to the SRM prompt without
doing anything.

After seeing the instructions at
http://spacepants.org/multia/debinstguide.html it looks to be simple, anyone
offer any info on why it's not?

Once I get this happening, I'll work on having the root filesystem mounted
via nfs :)

Cheers,
Rob

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[Paul Slootman]

On Fri 01 Feb 2002, Rob Byrnes wrote:

> I have downloaded the tftpboot.img file from the debian-stable archives and
> put it into the /tftpboot directory. The Multia boots, downloads the
> tftpboot.img file, and then resets itself back to the SRM prompt without
> doing anything.

I had my Multia do something similar (albeit booting from disk) when the
battery was almost run down. It took me a bit to figure this out...
It might be worth investigating. I simply replaced the lithium (or
whatever) battery with a holder for 3 penlights (which I now have to
replace every 300 days, else the system crashes / won't boot :-)

Paul Slootman