On Tue, 16 Feb 1999, Allan Kelly wrote:

> Hi, I've been using my Sun 3/60 dual-headed (mono w. salvaged cgfour
> retro-fitted) and booting from Linux using Xkernel. I'm very
> interested in NetBSD, and so I was delighted to see that a NetBSD
> Xkernel has been assembled. Luckily I was familiar with the procedure,
> as there's no instructions! I've got (I believe) to the same point as
> Wil, but unfortunately I don't understand your solution. I'd _really_
> appreciate some hand-holding here!

I had problems when I tried to use Xkernel, but then again, that might
have been because I didn't understand how the booting process worked. I've
been intending to put together an updated Xkernel using binaries from the
latest release, but haven't gotten around to it.

> netboot loads via tftp, netbsd loads and boots. At this stage I have
> messages in /var/log/messages telling me that the root directory has
> been mounted by the Sun, but the Sun says (repeatedly) RPC timeout for
> server 0x81d7461a which is indeed my server's IP. So, following from
> Wil's lead I try tcpdump, as follows: (The Sun 3/60 is
> dunbar.ucs.ed.ac.uk, the Linux box is lammermuir)

Do you have bootparamd running and configured (according to the
Netboot-HOWTO) on lammermuir?  What does the config file look like?

Wil
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