Re: Failing to netboot

[Matt Wallis <mattw%madmonks.org@localhost>]

On 28 Apr 2025, at 20:53, Valery Ushakov <uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost> wrote:

On Mon, Apr 28, 2025 at 13:56:32 +1000, Matt Wallis wrote:

No matter what I do though I get “Transfer failed, The file
downloaded does not appear to be executable.”

IIRC, our boot.net fakes an a.out header by prepending:

SUN_MAGIC_HEADER='\01\03\01\07\060\200\0\07\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0’

Well, the 8.0 boot.net didn’t work, file appears to think they’re real though.

mattw@pie:/srv/tftp$ file boot.net

boot.net: a.out SunOS SPARC executable

mattw@pie:/srv/tftp$ file boot.net.10

boot.net.10: a.out SunOS SPARC executable

mattw@pie:/srv/tftp$ file boot.net.10.1

boot.net.10.1: a.out SunOS SPARC executable

Still poking about.

Matt.