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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!news.ececs.uc.edu!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!enews.sgi.com!decwrl!pagesat.net!babylon5.glenqcy.glenayre.com!darkmatter.glenatl.glenayre.com!eddie 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 Lines: 30 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