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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!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!rill.news.pipex.net!pipex!feed1.news.innet.be!INbe.net!feed1.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!surfnet.nl!news.tue.nl!hoop.hak.nl!not-for-mail 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 Lines: 37 Message-ID: <o7rtk5.q9.ln@unox.hak.nl> References: <5ktg8p$nnh@sol.sun.csd.unb.ca> Reply-To: marijn@stack.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: annex1s26.urc.tue.nl X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 unoff BETA 970222; i586 Linux 2.0.30] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:5917 At an unique point in time/space Robert Ford <robert@grover.mta.ca> wrote: : I am trying to do a diskless boot of NetBSD-1.2 on a SparcStation 1+ with : 8MB RAM. The server is a Linux 2.0.10. : I believe that the tftp server is running fine. I have added the appropriate : rarp and rap entries. The Linux machine is named grover and the sparc is : named oscar. : On the sparc I see: : >ok boot le()netbsd -s : >Booting from: le(0,0,0)netbsd -s : >b200 >> NetBSD BOOT [$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 --- There is a chance that today is the first of May