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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.edu.au!cs.mu.OZ.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in3.uu.net!128.230.129.106!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-feed.inet.tele.dk!news.algonet.se!eru.mt.luth.se!news.kth.se!news.ifm.liu.se!not-for-mail From: Erik Persson <erik@ikp.liu.se> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc Subject: OpenBSD 2.1/pmax and DS5000/20 Date: 29 Jun 1997 17:21:52 +0200 Organization: IKP - Linkoping University Lines: 64 Sender: erik@sibelius.ikp.liu.se Message-ID: <t0en9ljuy7.fsf@sibelius.ikp.liu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: sibelius.ikp.liu.se Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.3/Emacs 19.34 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.openbsd.misc:162 I am trying to get my DECstation 5000/20 to boot OpenBSD completely diskless but it just won't work. I have set up a Sun running Solaris as boot server and configured bootpd (dhcpd actually), tftpd and also rarpd/bootparamd. I do not have any manuals for the boot monitor of the DS5000/20 but a bit of guessing on my behalf got me so far as trying 'boot 3/tftp' This rendered: ?IO: 3/tftp, a.out err (-2) Running snoop on the Sun shows this conversation (covers the whole boot attempt): foobar -> BROADCAST DHCP/BOOTP BOOTREQUEST foobar -> gazonk TFTP Read "bsd_nfs" (octet) gazonk -> foobar TFTP Data block 1 (512 bytes) foobar -> gazonk TFTP Error: disk full or allocation exceeded The boot monitor of the DECstation reports "KN02-CA V2.0g" upon completed self tests. According to installation instructions, it _is_ the bsd_nfs file that should be used for diskless booting as this kernel already is in ECOFF format. There is also a bsd.nfs kernel that I also tried: >> boot 3/tftp 1084176?IO: 3/tftp, a.out err (-2) >> This time, the DECstation reads a lot from the tftp server before the '?IO: 3/tftp, a.out err (-2)' error occurs. Snoop gives blah, blah (a lot of tftp READs and ACKs) and then foobar -> gazonk TFTP Ack block 2116 gazonk -> foobar TFTP Data block 2117 (512 bytes) foobar -> gazonk TFTP Ack block 2117 gazonk -> foobar TFTP Data block 2118 (480 bytes) (last block) foobar -> gazonk TFTP Ack block 2118 (here it stops and the ?IO: 3/tftp, a.out err (-2) error occurs). Does anybody here have any idea about what is going wrong? If I from Ultrix do a 'file' on the various bsd* files i get (filenames as on ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/2.1/pmax: bsd: data bsd.nfs: mipsel 407 executable - version 0.200 bsd_nfs: data I am thankful for any help. /Erik -- Erik Persson, System Manager e-mail: erik@ikp.liu.se Dept. of Mech. Engineering Voice: +46 13 28 2464 Division of Solid Mechanics Fax: +46 13 21 2717 University of Linköping, Sweden