On Sun, Dec 30, 2001 at 03:57:31AM -0500, James K. Lowden wrote:
> I'm learning to netboot a sparcstation 10 and getting stuck with
> bootparamsd.  The bootserver is NetBSD 1.5.  
> 
> /etc/bootparams looks like this:
> 
> sparc root=nfsserver:/usr/local/play/export/sparc/root gateway=192.168.1.5:0xffffff00 
> 
> because "sparc" is the name (for now) of the sparc box.  I don't know
> how the "nfsserver" string is significant.  
> 
> In /var/log/messages:
> 
> Dec 30 03:35:13 lowden rpc.bootparamd: whoami got question for 192.168.1.10
> Dec 30 03:35:13 lowden rpc.bootparamd: This is host sparc
> Dec 30 03:35:13 lowden rpc.bootparamd: Returning sparc       192.168.1.1
> Dec 30 03:35:13 lowden rpc.bootparamd: getfile got question for "sparc" and file "root"
> Dec 30 03:35:13 lowden rpc.bootparamd: getfile failed for sparc

Answered my own question.

Survey says:  Replace "nfsserver" with the hostname of the boot
server.  Duh.  

On to NFS permissions....

--jkl