Re: TFTP not able to find file???

In message [ref] you wrote:

- I used DHCP because as I fuddled around with u-boot, it didn't see
  possible to separate tftp from bootp. In other words, even if I set

Oops? What's wrong with just using U-Boot's "tftp" command?

  ip addr(s) and stuff through the u-boot setenv command, the values
  would be automatically overidden when I run the bootp command. The

Right. When you use DHCP or BOOTP you ask for  network  configuration
from the server, so this is what you get.

  BOOTP command seems to be the only way to kick off tftp, so I really

Wrong. You can start in  manually  (using  the  "tftp"  /  "tftpboot"
command,  or  automagically as part of the "rarpboot", "bootp" and/or
"dhcp" commands.

  wasn't able to find a way to make use of statically set network
  Config info.

Did you read the PPCBoot guid at our web page? It explains this stuff
pretty well.

- vmlinux.PPCBOOT is the product of my 'make uImage' build in my kernel
  source tree.

Any ideas on why this isn't working??

...

                        filename                "/tftpboot/vmlinux.PPCBoot";

...

=> bootp
ENET Speed is 100 Mbps - HALF duplex connection
BOOTP broadcast 1
DHCP client bound to address 172.16.77.152
ARP broadcast 1
TFTP from server 172.16.77.151; our IP address is 172.16.77.152
Filename '/tftpboot/vmlinux.PPCBoot'.
Load address: 0x100000
Loading: *
TFTP error: 'File not found' (1)

Your TFTP server might do a "chroot" into the /tftpboot directory, so
the file "/tftpboot/vmlinux.PPCBoot" cannot be found there.

Fix yout TFTP server configuration.

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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