Bug 85762

Summary:	Update to Netbooting section of Handbook to cover RaQ1
Product:	[OLD] Docs-user	Reporter:	Stuart Longland (RETIRED) <redhatter>
Component:	Handbook	Assignee:	Docs Team <docs-team>
Status:	RESOLVED NEEDINFO
Severity:	normal	CC:	gurligebis, mips
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	MIPS
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-mips&m=111115209829662&w=2
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:	86054
Bug Blocks:
Attachments:	Patch to correct the instructions...

Description Stuart Longland (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-03-18 05:08:48 UTC

Hi All,
  I've just discovered a bug in the documentation regarding netbooting of Cobalt servers.  It says to gzip up the CoLo ELF image, and place it on the server as 'vmlinux_raq-2800.gz'.

  It appears the RaQ1 looks elsewhere to download an image.  At the moment I'm still trying to find out what the RaQ1 calls this image and how to go about producing a netboot environment for this special case.

  I haven't got a patch to apply yet -- but I hope to have something shortly.  Watch this space :-)

Regards,
Stuart Longland

Comment 1 Stuart Longland (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-03-29 14:45:51 UTC

Hi All,
  One of the Debian users tried installing Linux on a RaQ1, and wasn't able to reproduce the symptoms.

http://bugs.debian.org/287321

I'll put a patch up mentioning to use vmlinux.gz rather than vmlinux_raq-2800.gz shortly, however until we get some more users striking the same problem, I'll mark this as a task to resolve when we have more information.  If anyone else strikes problems, feel free to re-open the bug.

Comment 2 Stuart Longland (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-03-29 15:23:44 UTC

Created attachment 54798 [details, diff]
Patch to correct the instructions...

Comment 3 Sven Vermeulen (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-03-30 00:07:10 UTC

Patch committed, btw