Hello,
I'm trying to coax an AlphaServer 300 4/266 into netbooting (after various 
less gentle attempts to coax the thing into booting from its cd-rom drive 
and floppy disk drive have failed), and it's working surprisingly well, 
except that the second stage bootloader reports an empty string as the nfs 
root path, rather than the rootpath I set up in /etc/bootptab.  
Unsurprisingly, it fails to load the netbsd kernel, and booting stops.

Has anyone encountered this particular problem before?  Is there another way 
to pass the nfs root path to netboot (say, by a flag I can conveniently set 
from the SRM console)?  Is there a mailing list perhaps better suited to 
questions like mine? :)

I'll include my /etc/bootptab here, although it certainly _looks_ correct to 
me:

dummy:\
        :ht=ether:\
        :ha=0000F8236650:\
        :sm=255.255.255.0:\
        :lg=192.168.1.5:\
        :ip=192.168.1.10:\
        :hn:\
        :bf=boot.netbsd:\
        :bs=auto:\
        :rp=/export/k/:\
        :vm=rfc1048:

Any help, hints, even grumpy dismissals of *obvious* syntax errors in my 
bootptab file will be appreciated :)

regards,
Michiel

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