On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 07:44:51PM -0700, John Nemeth wrote:
>      Going back to the Ultra 2, I see it downloading the last part of
> ofwboot.net and acknowledging it.  Then nothing.  There are no more
> packets sent, nothing printed on the screen, and I can't do Stop-A.
> Presumably this is point where it should start to execute ofwboot.net,
> but instead it is locking up hard.  I have a packet dump if it is
> needed (located at http://victoria.tc.ca/~jnemeth/u2-netboot-dump ).
> ofwboot.net is from
> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-2.0.2/sparc64/installation/netboot/ofwboot.net.
> Does anybody have any ideas?  Does anybody have a binary of the current
> version of ofwboot.net handy, so I can just grab the one file?
> 

At some point ofwboot had been changed to use dhcp first and then bootparamd,
so if you don't have dhcpd configured and running then you'll see some delay
[around a minute] and then you have to see bootparam used and kernel loading.
I downloaded and tried that ofwboot.net you mantioned and it works.

Here's a log

{0} ok boot net
Boot device: /sbus/SUNW,hme@e,8c00000  File and args: 
13000 >> NetBSD/sparc64 OpenFirmware Boot, Revision 1.7
>> (builds@works.netbsd.org, Wed Mar 23 01:17:12 UTC 2005)
bootp: no reply
Using BOOTPARAMS protocol: ip address: 192.168.7.74, hostname: rapier
root addr=192.168.7.31 path=/export/rapier/root
loadfile: reading header
elf64_exec: Booting /sbus@1f,0/SUNW,hme@e,8c00000/netbsd
1874976@0x1000000+106160@0x1800000+4088144@0x1819eb0 
symbols @ 0xfff2c3c0 127+204168 ..

--Andrey