* Stuart Longland <stuartl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [2005-03-18 23:20]:
It appears the RaQ1 is a special case, and does not look there to download its kernel. Does anyone know exactly where these boxes look for the kernel image when netbooting? That way, I can ammend[1] the handbook with the new details.
Possibly vmlinux_RAQ.gz. In Debian, we have a file called vmlinux.gz and the symlinks vmlinux_raq-2800.gz and vmlinux_RAQ.gz pointing to it, and that seems to work for everyone.
Hi, Thanks for the reply. I thought this might be the case. I suspect something weird is going on firmware wise.
When this user tries to boot, the system reports back "Unknown Compression Method". A full log from the serial console is here: <http://www.gurlinet.dk/upload/minicom.cap>. I suspect the system, as the colo-chain.elf is simply gzipped and named 'vmlinux.gz'.
We also get the same error message when using the Debian netboot images -- which is interesting to say the least. I've looked around but haven't seen any comments regarding Gentoo or Debian on a RaQ1. Has anyone tried installing a modern Linux distribution on these boxes? -- +-------------------------------------------------------------+ | Stuart Longland -oOo- http://stuartl.longlandclan.hopto.org | | Atomic Linux Project -oOo- http://atomicl.berlios.de | | - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | | I haven't lost my mind - it's backed up on a tape somewhere | +-------------------------------------------------------------+
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