*BSD News Article 93541


Return to BSD News archive

Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!EU.net!chsun!news.eunet.ch!not-for-mail
From: claudio@oregano.aps.ch (Claudio Nieder)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.sys.dec
Subject: DECstation fails to boot OpenBSD remotely. What's wrong?
Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc
Date: 14 Apr 1997 12:11:59 GMT
Organization: APS Applied Systematics AG
Lines: 60
Message-ID: <5it6uf$h4m@news.eunet.ch>
NNTP-Posting-Host: eunet-gw.aps.ch
Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc:62 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5811 comp.sys.dec:43923


Hi,

I've got a problem with remote booting on a Personal DECstation 5000/33.
I have two such machines. One is running Ultrix 4.4, and I have setup
tftpd and bootpd on it, as shown in the included configuration files.

On the other DECstation I enter the PROM monitor and type the command
"boot 3/tftp". Within less than a second I get the response "?IO:
3/tftp, bootp tmout".

On the Ultrix machine this shows up in the syslog (I started bootpd with
the option -d):

Apr 14 13:50:57 chili 14313 bootpd: Processing boot request from hw addr 08:00:2b:3c:25:1a 
Apr 14 13:50:57 chili 14313 bootpd: Found 194.191.90.134 
Apr 14 13:50:57 chili 14313 bootpd: bootfile is ./openbsd 

repeated 5 times, all with the same timestamp.

If I use the tftp client from some other unix box, and perform a "get
./openbsd" then I will receive the file.

Any hint, to what I may do wrong is appreciated.

		Thank you

				claudio

Claudio Nieder, APS Applied Systematics AG, Seefeldstr. 231, 8008 Zürich
Mail: claudio.nieder@aps.ch  Phone: +41 1 381 21 22 Fax: +41 1 381 21 27

-------------------------------------------------------------------------
/etc/bootpd:
# /etc/bootptab:  database      for bootp server (/usr/etc/bootpd)
#
# home directory

.

# default bootfile

defaultboot

# end of first section
%%

#
# host          htype haddr             iaddr           bootfile
#
curry.aps.ch    1 08-00-2b-3c-25-1a     194.191.90.134  openbsd
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
In /etc/inetd.conf:
 ...
tftp    dgram   udp     wait    /usr/etc/tftpd  tftpd -r /usr/local/OpenBSD
 ...
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

-- 
Claudio Nieder, APS Applied Systematics AG, Seefeldstr. 231, 8008 Zürich
Mail: claudio.nieder@aps.ch  Phone: +41 1 381 21 22 Fax: +41 1 381 21 27