As Adam Sulmicki wrote ...
> "Jonker, Harm" writes:
> ->> 
> ->> 
> ->> Hello,
> ->> 	I have an DEC 3000 Model 300X. I was trying to 
> ->> 	Install NetBSD on it. I ran across this problem :(
> ->> 
> ->> 	I just have upgraded the firmware from 
> ->> 	v6.0 to v7.0
> ->> 
> ->> 	everything so far appears to be fine except 
> ->> 	that it does not want netboot anymore!
> 
> ->I experienced the same problem! 
> ->I went back to v6.0 and then it works good.
> ->Do you need v7.0 for a special reason ?
> 
> Well, I was trying to netboot NetBSD-1.3.3, and the 'netboot' bootloader
> said that it think my prom code is too old as it could not find MAC
> adress. 
> 
> I was looking over all doc's and faq's but did not see anything about the
> broken firmware until after the fact :(.
> 
> Now the $25'000 questions is _HOW_ to get back to the old firmware. The
> box does not have floppy nor cd drive. I used bootpd to load the new
> firmware.

Borrow a CD drive. Apart from DEC drives the Sun tabletops work very
well (also default to 512 byte blocks). And they are probably easier to
find.

Groeten / Cheers,
Wilko
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