Netbooting a G5 and YDL 4

[Daniel Gimpelevich]

YDL4 cannot be netbooted. PERIOD. See:
http://lists.penguinppc.org/yaboot-users/2003/yaboot-users-200307/msg00017.html

On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 14:16:40 -0500, McKinlay, Ken wrote:

> Greetings,
> 
> Please forgive me if this has been discussed before on the list but I
> did not see anything in the archives (at least since YDL 4 was
> released).
> 
> I am attempting to netboot YDL 4 on a Mac G5 using the kernel image
> vmlinux-2.6.8-1.ydl.7g5 from yellowdog-4.0/en/os/boot and
> ramdisk.image.gz file from yellowdog-4.0/en/os/images/ on the FTP site.
> The dhcp and tftp components of the boot appears to work fine. I see the
> accessing of the kernel and ramdisk file from my tftp server. However,
> instead of a prompt from the ramdisk image, it continues loading YDL
> from the copy already installed on the hard disk.
> 
> The questions I have are:
> 
> 1. Has anyone gotten YDL to work via netboot using the files available
> from the FTP site?
> 
> 2. Is the loading from the hard disk normal if netbooting using the
> ramdisk.image.gz file?
> 
> 3. What have I messed up or forgotten in order to get this to work so it
> doesn't refer to the hard disk?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> 
> Ken McKinlay, GCIA
> Network Security (and former UNIX administrator),
> Curtiss-Wright Controls, Embedded Computing
> ken.mckinlay at curtisswright.com 
> 
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