On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 08:54 +0800, John Summerfied wrote: > Paul Nasrat wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-09-20 at 21:50 +0800, John Summerfied wrote: > > > >>I've been playing round with a Mac or two, discovering how to do network > >>installs on them. > >> > >>Since network-booting Macs is under-documented I've been doing (aside > >>from extended googling) much spying on network traffic. > > > > > > Hmm, it's all IEEE1275 obp-tftp stuff. > > I've seen the term "obp-tftp" but not been able to assign a meaning to > "obp." I've now got a Google search to browse. obp-tftp is the package (see IEEE1275) that OpenFirmware uses for netbooting http://playground.sun.com/1275/practice/obp-tftp/tftp0_5d.html Basically cards that support the word open will use obp-tftp for the backend protocol stuff. > > Does boot enet:, not work for you? > > That finds /Mac/yaboot and not /Mac/yaboot.conf - just like holding "n" > down. Odd that works for me fine. Could you build a yaboot with DEBUG=1 in the Makefile and personally mail me the full details of a boot in both the fail and success cases. For your convenience - you should be able to use telnet to log this more easily: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn/tn2004.html Paul
