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 Post subject: Trouble netbooting EFIKA
PostPosted: Wed Feb 21, 2007 10:42 pm 
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Hi,

I'm having trouble netbooting my EFIKA:
Code:
EFIKA 5K2 Boot Strap [RELEASE BUILD] (c) 2002-2006 bplan GmbH (BUILD 2)Running on CPU PVR: 0x80822014
Running on system SVR: 0x80110022
BIOS Code position: 0xFFF040D0
Setup System Config... Done.
Setup Memory Config... Done.
Setup PCI... Done.
Setup ATA... Done.
Setup USB... Done.
Setup ETH... Done.
Testing 08000000 Bytes, Pass: 00000000 Failed: 00000000
RAM TEST (fill random)... Done.
cpu0: PowerPC,G2 CPUClock 396 Mhz BUSClock 132 Mhz (Version 0x8082,0x2014)
Welcome to SmartFirmware(tm) for bplan EFIKA5K2
Version 1.3 (20061107101950)
SmartFirmware(tm) Copyright 1996-2001 by CodeGen, Inc.
All Rights Reserved.
Pegasos BIOS Extensions Copyright 2001-2006 by bplan GmbH.
All Rights Reserved.
ok boot eth:192.168.0.1,efika.img
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It just keeps twiddling here.
It seems like it's not able to negotiate its ethernet connection: the link lights on the ethernet port are off. I tried several cables, or connecting it to different switches, but no luck.

Am I forgetting to do something?

-- Suleiman


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PostPosted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 1:16 am 
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do you have a DHCP server running?

what does the log of the tftp server show?


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PostPosted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 2:46 am 
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boot eth:192.168.0.1,efika.img
boot eth:192.168.0.1 efika.img should work (no ",")


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PostPosted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 1:13 pm 
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Quote:
do you have a DHCP server running?

what does the log of the tftp server show?
Yes, I have a DHCP server running.
The tftp server does not show anything in its logs.

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boot eth:192.168.0.1 efika.img should work (no ",")
I tried that too, and it doesn't work either.

As I said, it doesn't seem to get any link on the ethernet: no packets ever make it to the wire.

-- Suleiman


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PostPosted: Thu Feb 22, 2007 1:56 pm 
If you are running Gentoo, it seems that DHCP must be upgraded to 3.0.11 (use ~ppc flag for that).
I was also having a dhcp issue with my Efika, and that's how I've resolved it.

Hope that helps.


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 Post subject: netbooting efika
PostPosted: Wed Mar 21, 2007 9:36 am 
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Try something like this..
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ok boot eth:static.ip.of.server,efika.img,static.ip.of.efika efika.img console=ttyPSC0 ip=static.ip.of.efika
of course you'd replace things like static.ip.of.efika with 192.168.0.whatever

Also be sure that your TFTP server is up and running and listening on port 69. Be sure that port 69 is open in your server machine's firewall. Check syslog to be sure your tftp server comes up okay. Check ps aux | grep tftp to be sure the process is running. Check netstat -ap | grep tftp to see that it is listening on it's port. Check whatever log file the tftp server reports it's connections to. Try wireshark or some other packet trace program if you need to be sure of the net traffic. You should see traffic logged in syslog, too.

If you stay stuck I will try to help you more. I just spent a week messing with net-booting. Sorry to be terse but I have to run. I'll check back on this thread.

Peace,

Tim


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