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From: steve@mctavish.demon.co.uk (Steve Woodford)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: NetBSD NFS boot problems
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 1996 18:47:43 GMT
Organization: Pissup, Brewery ... get it?
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Message-ID: <steve.841862863@mctavish.demon.co.uk>
References: <502d5n$5ii@babylon5.glenqcy.glenayre.com>
Keywords: bootparamd netbsd mvme147 nfs
X-NNTP-Posting-Host: mctavish.demon.co.uk
eddie@glenatl.glenayre.com (eddie) writes:
>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?
[snip]
>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
Check you have rpc.bootparamd running on the server, with the correct
entry in the /etc/bootparams file. For example, a line from mine is:
jings.local root=mctavish:/export/root/jings \
swap=192.168.1.1:/export/swap/jings
This allows nfs host 'jings.local' to get info. about its root fs and
swap area.
Cheers, Steve
PS. For a quicker response, try the port-mvme68k@netbsd.org mailing list.
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