The PMAX boot roms are picky and buggy.  Some won't boot TFTP at all, and
others insist on the TFTP server being absolutely faithful to the protocol
spec.  Linux isn't always.

Peace...  Sridhar

On Thu, 1 May 2003, Christian Nilsson wrote:

> A long time ago when I got my first DECstation I tried to tftp-boot from a
> linux-host, but I did not get it to work. However the exact same
> configuration worked without any problems on a FreeBSD-machine. so I think
> that there at least used to be some sort of problem tftp-loading the
> kernel from a linux-machine... Try with a *BSD-machine instead! =)
>
> /T
>
> > on a linux suse 8.0 machine, i'm trying hard, but it stops somewhere
> > before ecoff....any easy howto? i must have something wrong in the path
> > of tftp or bootp.
> >
> > Fred
>
>
>