Re: diskless boot

=?iso-8859-1?Q?H=E5kan=20Th=F6rngren?= <[email protected]> wrote:
>I finally got my cats card into a box, no disks at all connected, just
>a monitor and keyboard (temporarily) and a network card.

>It has Cyclone 0.4 firmware.  How do I get it to boot diskless?

>It comes to a boot> prompt, no bootable devices are available
>according to the devices command.  The network card is mentioned
>during boot and it shows carrier at the hub it is connected to.

What kind of network card ?

>I stumbled over a debian installation faq for ARM that mentioned 
>boot> boot de0:
>Does not work, I tried setting de0: in the boot enviroment variable
>too, but no. Tried many other variants, le0, eth0 etc..  No go.
>It likes to say "No such file or directory"

I think it will only netboot from a network card that uses the 'ne'
driver.

Any cheap 10baseT card using the Realtek RTL8029 should do.

Robert Swindells