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From: eddie@glenatl.glenayre.com (eddie)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: NetBSD NFS boot problems
Date: 28 Aug 1996 21:19:51 GMT
Organization: Glenayre
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Message-ID: <502d5n$5ii@babylon5.glenqcy.glenayre.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: darkmatter.glenatl.glenayre.com
Summary: bootparamd fails on booting NetBSD on a MVME147
Keywords: bootparamd netbsd mvme147 nfs
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2]


following the directions included with the port of NetBSD1.2 for
mvme147, it took a few tries but I finally got it up to the
point of tftpbooting from the server.  However it gets this far
and then breaks, can someone enlighten me where have i gone wrong
on the sun(server) side?

147-Bug>g 4000
Effective address: 00004000

sboot: serial line bootstrap program (&end = 6018)

>>> b
le0: ethernet address: yy:yy:yy:yy:yy:yy
My ip address is: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
Server ip address is: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
4800
Download was a success!
Start @ 0x8000 ...
>>> BSD MVME 147 netboot (via sboot) ($Revision: 1.2 $)
device: le0 attached to yy:yy:yy:yy:yy:yy
boot: client IP address: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
bootparamd: 'whoami' call failed
boot: netbsd: Input/output error
boot:

i cannot seem to understand how bootparamd could have failed considering
the earlier steps...

thanks