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Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2010 23:41:47 +0200
From: frank@inua.be
To: 9fans@9fans.net
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Subject: [9fans] pxe booting net4801
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Hi,

I can't get a Soekris net4801 box to boot Plan 9 via PXE.

On my Plan 9 fileserver (which also runs ip/dhcpd and ip/tftpd), I
created /cfg/pxe/<MAC of the first interface on the net4801>, which is
almost identical to the file I use for a diskless terminal. The only
differences are that I put mouseport, monitor and vgasize in
comment. The remaining things, bootfile and nobootprompt are the same
as for the terminal. I first tried to boot /386/9pc.gz and then
/386/9pccpu.gz (see below). I also added *nomp=1 but that doesn't seem
to get it any further. The console output looks as follows:

--- begin ---
Plan 9 from Bell Labs by PXE

no vga; serial console only
soekris 505
ns83815: auto neg timed out
ns83815: auto neg timed out
ether#0: 83815: port 0xE100 irq 10: 000024c15308
mercurius (192.168.1.12!67): /cfg/pxe/000024c15308
cpu0: 266MHz AMD Geode GX1 loop 11972
dev A0 port 1F0 config 848A capabilities 0200 mwdma 0000
mercurius (192.168.1.12!67): /386/9pccpu.gz
gz...944713 => 946607+854152+313028=2113787
entry: f0100020
---  end  ---

Any idea what might be wrong?


Kind regards,

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Frank Lenaerts ---------------------------------------- frank@inua.be