Hi!

I'm trying to boot a VIA Epia board over network. My setup is as follows:

Dhcp and tftpd are running on my gentoo server. I want to install
OpenBSD on the Epia board, which currently does not have any operating
system installed.
I use pxelinux to deliver floppy34.fs as the kernel image, but it only
displays funny characters on screen. The bsd.bd image is "corrupt", says
pxelinux.

Am I doing something wrong here?

Thanks,

Achim

Achim Stäbler <achim.staebler@web.de> wrote in message news:<bqqp48$vln$04$1@news.t-online.com>...
> Hi!

hey

> I'm trying to boot a VIA Epia board over network. My setup is as follows:
>
> Dhcp and tftpd are running on my gentoo server. I want to install
> OpenBSD on the Epia board, which currently does not have any operating
> system installed.
> I use pxelinux to deliver floppy34.fs as the kernel image, but it only
> displays funny characters on screen. The bsd.bd image is "corrupt", says
> pxelinux.
>
> Am I doing something wrong here?

I had the same problem (with a Nehemia M-10000), I've tried the
floppy34.fs, floppy34B.fs and floppy34C.fs for OpenBSD/3.4 i386
and none of them boots on the board correctly. The EPIA board is
running headless and I haven't set up the serial console yet with
PXELinux so I'm not sure yet what errors are appearing....

I have verified the network boot process is working by booting busybox,
with this just some basic feature are available but you can telnet into
the box and mount filesystems etc.

Check out this article for rolling your own kernel and boot image (it's for
linux but the process for OpenBSD should be pretty much the same)

http://www.viaarena.com/?PageID=379


> Thanks,
>
> Achim


have fun

Patrick