Ubuntu
etherboot package

10.04 A2 etherboot image not useable by etherboot clients

Bug #523325 reported by jsass
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
LTSP5
Incomplete
Undecided
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etherboot (Ubuntu)
New
Undecided
misael da silveira
ltsp (Ubuntu)
Incomplete
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: etherboot

10.04 Alpha 2, updated Feb 16, 2009

Output from etherboot client:

Bootrom v1.7

Etherboot/32 v5.0.10 (GPL) For more info, visit www.DisklessWorkstations.Com
ROM segment 0xd800 length 0x4000 reloc 0x9400
Etherboot 5.0.10 (GPL) Tagged ELF for [RTL8139]
Probing...[RTL8139]Fount Realtek 8139 ROM address 0x0000
   - ioaddr 0XD000, addr 00:13:90:01:90:74 100Mbps full-duplex
Searching for server (DHCP)...
..Me: 192.168.92.26, Server: 192.168.92.1, Gateway 192.168.92.1
Loading 192.168.92.1:/ltsp/i386/nbi.img ...(ELF)... ....................................................[etc...]
.........done

After "done", there is no movement.

The same works in 9.04. More notes to come.

Revision history for this message
Alkis Georgopoulos (alkisg) wrote :

Would this be a duplicate of LP #487826?

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Oliver Grawert (ogra) wrote :

in any case it should be tested if mknbi wouldnt be the better choice.
we switched to mkelfimage as the default nbi creation tool in the chroots to support thincan thin clients a while ago, before that switch such problems never showed up, mkelfimage does seem to support only a subset of etherboot clients while it additionally supports clients using linuxbios/coreboot (i.e. the thincan).
mknbi and mkelfimage cant coexist but if mknbi doesnt show these issues a reversion of this change should be considered, users with coreboot based clients (which imho is a minority) simply need to replace mknbi with mkelfimage then (this should be documented on the wiki indeed).

misael da silveira (misaelsilveirinha)
Changed in etherboot (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → misael da silveira (misaelsilveirinha)
assignee: misael da silveira (misaelsilveirinha) → nobody
assignee: nobody → misael da silveira (misaelsilveirinha)
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Stéphane Graber (stgraber) wrote :

Can you test what Oliver described above?

Also, is the issue still happening with 11.04?

Changed in ltsp (Ubuntu):
status: New → Incomplete
Changed in ltsp:
status: New → Incomplete
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