[Netboot-general] re: new to netboot: mknbi-dos unable to boot any image

[Peter L. P. <pl...@ac...>]

Hi all,

I have netboot 0.9.8 (after trying etherboot unsuccessfully for my rtl8019 
slave cards). It installs & works but:

netbooting (with floppy) any image prepared with mknbi-dos fails, after 
the image transits the network. The error I get is always the same:

Starting image...

DOS Net Boot Image Loader Version 0.8.1 (mknbi-dos)
GPLed by G. Kuhlmann

Wrong ramdisk image

Network boot failed

// what means 'Wrong ramdisk image ?!

I tried dos5, dos6.22 and win95 and win98 rescue disk images (1.44Mb 
each), as well as a single floppy linux distro (that should also work 
imho).

What gives ?

I have installed netboot using ./configure; make; make install . I have 
gcc 3.3.3 (debian testing/unstable). There seems to be an issue with my 
toolchain as it fails to build etherboot images that behave like 
rom-o-matic (there may be no support for <i586 in the compiler toolchain 
!).

help ? tia,

Peter