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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!news.maxwell.syr.edu!eerie.fr!cnusc.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!in2p3.fr!news-ge.switch.ch!news.bme.hu!not-for-mail From: PECSENYANSZKY Istvan <ipecse@goliat.eik.bme.hu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: netbooting MicroVAX 2000 Date: 28 Jun 1997 16:48:52 GMT Organization: Technical University of Budapest Lines: 46 Message-ID: <5p3f9k$b38$1@goliat.eik.bme.hu> NNTP-Posting-Host: goliat.eik.bme.hu X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 unoff BETA 970424; sun4d SunOS 5.5] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:6195 Hi, I tried to netboot my MicroVAX 2000 from a Linux box, but I had no success. MOP, RARP, and rpc.bootparamd seem working fine: the VAX can boot the bootfile, it can determine its IP address. After that the VAX sends a request for its root fs, then nfs-mounts it and loads the netbsd kernel. I tried to load several kernels, first `netbsd' from ftp://ifib4.ifib.uni-karlsruhe.de/pub/NetBSD-vax/netboot.tar.gz. After loading this kernel nothing happens. Nothing at the console, nothing at the logs. With `netbsd.GENERIC' (copied from ftp://ftp.stacken.kth.se/disk2/OS/ NetBSD/arch/vax/snapshot/) and with `netbsd-v31' (ftp'ed from ftp://ifib4.ifib.uni-karlsruhe.de/pub/NetBSD-vax/netbsd-v31.gz) happens a little bit more. After loading the kernel the VAX sends a query (now the second time) for its root fs, and then for its swap file. After that I can ping the VAX from the Linux side, but no further messages appear on the VAX console. Netbooting `edlabel' or `copy' gives the same output. The output of the VAX console in every cases: >>> b esa0 -ESA0 Nboot : /netbsd le_softc.sc_r2 = 0x3a0000 device: le0 attached to 08:00:2b:0f:a2:11 boot: client IP address: 192.168.1.2 boot: client name: winnie root addr=192.168.1.1 path=/netboot/root 675840+35840+70136 start 0x98bbe Help, please! Istvan <pecseny@inf.bme.hu>