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From: Marijn Meijles <marijn@hoop.hak.nl>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Sparc 1+ diskless boot problem.
Date: Fri, 9 May 1997 02:30:48 +0200
Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
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At an unique point in time/space Robert Ford <robert@grover.mta.ca> wrote:
: I am trying to do a diskless boot of NetBSD-1.2 on a SparcStation 1+ with
: 8MB RAM.  The server is a Linux 2.0.10.

: I believe that the tftp server is running fine.  I have added the appropriate
: rarp and rap entries.  The Linux machine is named grover and the sparc is
: named oscar.

: On the sparc I see:

: >ok boot le()netbsd -s                                                            
: >Booting from: le(0,0,0)netbsd -s                                                 
: >b200 >> NetBSD BOOT [$Revision: 1.4 $]                                           
: >boot: client IP address: 138.73.1.66                                             

: It hangs here forever (well a real long time...).

: Out of curiosity, I ran tcpdump and after a lot of transfering of the data
: from the PC to the Sparc I get:

: >17:13:47.164213 grover.mta.ca.1083 > oscar.mta.ca.30849: udp 116 (ttl 64, id 14103)
: >17:13:47.174213 oscar.mta.ca.30849 > grover.mta.ca.1083: udp 4 (ttl 123, id 1234)
: >17:13:48.184213 rarp who-is 8:0:20:9:a:e2 tell 8:0:20:9:a:e2
: >17:13:48.184213 rarp reply 8:0:20:9:a:e2 at oscar.mta.ca
: >17:13:48.234213 oscar.mta.ca.1023 > 255.255.255.255.sunrpc: udp 96 (ttl 4, id 0)

: Does anyone have any suggestions or remarks about what I have not configured
: correctly?


you forgot bootparamd.... it's in the latest NetKit

-- 
Marijn
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