Re: iMac netboot issues

[uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost (Valeriy E. Ushakov)]

der Mouse <mouse%rodents-montreal.org@localhost> wrote:

> I'm trying to netboot an iMac.  The netboot server is 3.1 on i386.
> 
> After struggling a bit with dhcpd.conf, I ended up more or less cloning
> the config from the 3.1 INSTALL.more file (3.1 is what I'm trying to
> run on the iMac for the moment).  I got it to the point where it loads
> ofwboot.xcf, but then it fails to even try to do NFS, and I can't see
> what's wrong.

I wonder if it might be related to this:

  http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-macppc/2007/05/14/0000.html

Summary - at least for ppc minis apple broke dhcp by using jumbo
packets that ar larger than dhcp maximum message size.  May be iMacs
suffer from that too.

I ended up booting my mini kernel off of cd for diskless boots.

-uwe