On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Patrick Welche wrote:

> I'm getting stuck on my first diskless boot. The idea is to try to figure
> out what is wrong with someone's broken windoze box by running an all
> singing all dancing kernel on it, but the only working interface seems to be
> the network. It's a Compaq Evo N150 (fxp0).
> 
> I thought the plan was on the server:
> - set up a suitable root and export it via nfs.
> - add entries to dhcpd.conf to point to the kernel to grab via tftp.
> On the client:
> - select Network boot in the BIOS.
> 
> Now the bind:
> - the dhcp request is successful
> - tftp transfer commences, but:
> 
> PXE-E3A: TFTP too many packages
> PXE-M0F: Exiting Intel PXE ROM.
> 
> Apparently that error is because the kernel is larger than 512k. (I'm going
> for 4Mb or 1.4Mb bzipped)
> 
> Is their a "download small bootloader" stage in the above that I am missing?
> (which could then grab the large kernel and load it)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Patrick
k
support for PXE was not added until recently.  checkout this link to the
CVSweb interface for the i386 boot area.

http://cvsweb.no.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/syssrc/sys/arch/i386/stand/

diana