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From: jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU (Jonathan Stone)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: decstation 5000/133: linux/MIPS, OpenBSD/pmax or NetBSD/pmax
Date: 18 Jul 1997 02:54:26 GMT
Organization: Stanford Distributed Systems Group
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In article <33CA9B66.13DDD6B3@spegnet.demon.co.uk>, Marc Tipping <marc@spegnet.demon.co.uk> writes:
[ NFS-boot 5000/200 rev 5.3t PROM from Linux machine]


>a reply. My linux machines got no rarp kernel support
> /proc/net/rarp dont exist - does this matter, and my /users/nfs
> directory is owned by me (marc) with users group and rwxr-xr-x privs.

Assuming this is NetBSD:

Not having RARP will stall your kernel.  The DECstation PROMs use
bootp to find their IP address in order to tftp the kernel; but once
the kernel is started it needs both RARP (to tell the NetBSD kernel
its address), and rpc.bootparamd with an entry for root (and for swap,
with 1.2F or older kernels).

Not having either of those (rarp or rpc.bootparamd) will cause you
grief with diskless booting.

port-pmax@netbsd.org (or if OpenBSD, the equivalent OpenBSD list) is
really a better place to discuss such issues.