remote booting

From: Peter M. Chen <pmchen_at_eecs.umich.edu>
Date: Fri, 3 Mar 1995 14:48:33 -0500

I have a question concerning using bootp to do a remote boot of an Alpha
workstation. I'm booting a DEC 3000/600 running OSF V3.0. The machine
delivering the kernel is a DEC 2000/300 running OSF V3.0.

I have bootp, tftpd, and inet all working fine. The syslog shows that they're
delivering the vmunix file (called vmunix.bootp) as expected. However, when
the DEC 2000 finishes delivering vmunix and the DEC 3000 starts executing
the kernel, it immediately halts with a invalid KSP (which I assume is
kernel stack pointer) error.

I'm not using the RIS or dataless systems--I'm just trying to have the kernel
live on a remote machine instead of the local disk.

Anyone have it working so that you can boot from a remote kernel?

By the way, I have successfully "booted" the firmware update boot program
using bootp and tftp. But the same setup doesn't work for a "real" vmunix.

Any tips?
    Pete

Prof. Peter M. Chen
EECS Department, 2211 EECS
1301 Beal Ave.
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2122
(313) 763-4472, fax: (313) 763-4617
pmchen_at_eecs.umich.edu
http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~pmchen/
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