network boot

[Joel Sherrill]

Vivek Vaid wrote:

> 
> On Wed, 26 Sep 2001, Davide Del Vento wrote:
> 
>> Hi all.
>> I would like to configure RTMES (on a PC104 and with a 3c509 Ethernet card) 
>> to obtain a boot via network (NFS? FTP?). I found something on this archive, 
>> eg. the threads:
>> 
>> http://usa.oarcorp.com/rtems/maillistArchives/rtems-users/2001/april/msg00076.html
>> http://usa.oarcorp.com/rtems/maillistArchives/rtems-users/2001/april/msg00065.html
>> 
>> but I miss something...
>> Could someone give me some suggestions?
>> Thank you very much in advance,
>> ;David
> 
> 
> I used netboot . I downloaded the netboot package, and follwed to
> instructions to make the Binary file, which i then programmed on the
> eprom. (the chip should be atleast 16KB, mine was 32K)
> 
> I know rom-o-matic.net generates etherboot images on website, and gives
> the bin file. But to me (atleast) the etherboot chip was giving problems
> in understanding the Netboot format files, which are generated by Default
> for all examples of rtems.
> in fact ifusing the standard makefiles of RTEMs, the netboot images of
> your program are generated by default (.bt files).
> 
> However, using netboot might take you one step behind the standard of
> using DCHP. since i found, netboot required a simple bootp server. (which
> does not come with Redhat linux 6.2 or above, so you will have to get it
> from older version, or rpmfind.net). 
> Hence on server side you only need to enable bootp-server & tftp.
> (whos config file bootptab is much simple that DHCP.conf)

I don't understand. Are you saying that you are one step behind because 
RedHat is leaving
out bootp in late model releases?  Or is there a problem on the RTEMS side?

> 
> NFS is only required if you need to mount file systems. For stand alone
> control programs its not required.
> 
> regards,
> Vivek
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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