Trouble booting my indy

[Leander Koornneef <leander@ibb.uu.nl>]

Hi there, 

I acquired an indy recently. I spent some time reading emails in these
lists and some documentation available on the internet.
So now, finally came the time to really try and install debian-mips on
this machine.
I booted my Mandrake linux box and setup everything according to
http://staf.digibel.org/topic.php?lang=eng&top=indy
Now, I fired up the indy and gave the command:

        

'boot -f
bootp()vmlinux-2.4.0-test6-pre8.ecoff init=/bin/bash
nfsroot=192.168.0.1:/indy'

I got the following:

        

'Setting
$netaddr to 192.168.0.2 ( from server)'

Which is nice :-)
Then, nothing happens for a minute or two after which I get the
mesage:

        

'Unable to
load bootp()vmlinux-2.4.0-test6-pre8.ecoff
''bootp()vmlinux-2.4.0-test6-pre8.ecoff'' is not a valid file to
boot'

As far as I can tell, the tftp daemon is running and /indy is
exported
In the logs it says:

        

Mar 19 02:39:06 leander dhcpd: data: lease_time: lease ends at 0 when it is now 984965946
        Mar 19 02:39:06 leander dhcpd: BOOTREQUEST from 08:00:69:09:64:09 via eth0
        Mar 19 02:39:06 leander dhcpd: BOOTREPLY for 192.168.0.2 to indy (08:00:69:09:64:09) via eth0

And that's it :-(
I read something about problems with tftpd running on linux >= 2.3,
but my boot server is running 2.2.18.
I hope someone can help me finally boot my indy....
By the way, it's an R5000pc (150MHz)

Many thanks in advance,

Leander Koornneef