RE: [Etherboot-users] Trouble Booting Kernel Image with Etherboot 4.6.7

[Timothy L. <tim...@al...>]

> This is my first attempt at booting over a network.  I am=20
> trying to load an image across the network and I am receiving=20
> the following message (using Etherboot v4.6.7):
>=20
> "error: not a tagged file
> unable to load file"
>=20
> over and over and over and over and over and over and over .=20
> . . and over again.
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> I've run "mkelf-linux --rootdir=3D/tftpboot vmlinuz initrd.img=20
> > linux.nb"=20
> on my image and am still receiving the message.  I created an=20
> Etherboot
> v5.4.1 boot disk and am able to load the image via PXE, so=20
> I'm sure the vmlinuz and initrd.img files are correct. =20
> Updating the onboard ROM isn't an option at this point; I'm=20
> stuck with v4.6.7.

No you are not.  Simply use 4.6.7 to download a 5.4.1 version of
etherboot first.  If you have a 5.4.1 version of the rom file (zrom)
then I believe it is simply mknbi-rom whateverrom.zrom >
whateverrom.zrom.nbi.

Then update your dhcpd.conf file to send whateverrom.zrom.nbi if the
vendor string is etherboot 4 and the kernel if it is etherboot 5.x

Tim

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