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From: ignatios@cs.uni-bonn.de (Ignatios Souvatzis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: decstation 5000/133: linux/MIPS, OpenBSD/pmax or NetBSD/pmax
Date: 16 Jul 1997 10:29:32 GMT
Organization: RHRZ - University of Bonn (Germany)
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To: Marc Tipping <marc@spegnet.demon.co.uk>
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[Posted and mailed]
In article <33CA9B66.13DDD6B3@spegnet.demon.co.uk>,
Marc Tipping <marc@spegnet.demon.co.uk> writes:
> I have a DECStation 5000/200 (3MAX) with Turbochannel SCSI (PMAZ) video
> PMAGB-BA and PMAD ethernet with KN02 version 5.3t PROMS. 1 RZ55 1 RX56
> in expansion.
>
> I'm trying to TFTP boot this from a Linux 2.0.29 pentium with a
...
> nfs_boot:Using network interface le0
> revarp failed, error=51
> cannot mount root,error=5
>
> and then prompts me again for the root device. The transciever on my
> pentium flashes recieve so the DEC is asking for something but never
> gets a reply. My linux machines got no rarp kernel support
> /proc/net/rarp dont exist - does this matter,
I guess _this_ is the exact problem. Your newly running NetBSD kernel
tries to get its IP address by sending out a reverse arp request, and
nobody answers.
You should either add RARP support to your Linux system, or maybe get
a NetBSD system as a helper machine, which does RARP handling as a user
program.
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Regards,
-is