Subject: Re: Shark netboot question
To: roshi <alexrd@earthlink.net>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: port-arm32
Date: 10/03/2000 15:20:16
On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, roshi wrote:

> Hello all,
> long time lurker first time poster, blah blah blah...
> 
> Anyway, I recently got my hands on a Funai DNARD machine and have been
> working on getting it netbooting from an i386 NetBSD machine. It's starting
> out OK (finds the kernel, starts booting) but it chokes every time upon
> trying to mount root.
> what I see is:
> 
> boot device: <unknown>
> nfs_boot: 'cs0' not found
> cannot mount root: error = 6
> 
> It then prompts me to enter the root device (only choices: cs0 and halt) the
> dump device, and the filesystem type, at which point it loops...
> 
	What does tcpdump from the server report? Also, do you have
	another box you can test netbooting? (Another i386 box with the
	kernel told to use the network device should be fine).


                David/absolute
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