Re: diskless boot

[Håkan Thörngren <hth%update.uu.se@localhost>]

So I put the network card back and this time it was recognized as ne0.
I do not know why it did not work before, dirty connectors perhaps,
ugh.

Strangely, the ethernet address is 00:00:00:00:e8:e8

At least it starts to boot now, finds the kernel but hangs during
boot.  After the long talk about all devices it comes to a stop with
boot device: <unknown>
root device: 

And a blinking cursor after "root device: ".
I am allowed to choose one of: ne0 ddb halt reboot

Should it not automatically find the nfs root file system?
I have it exported on the server, but the client does not seem to
request it (at least not according to syslog).

Here is the relevant parts of my current dhpcd.conf:

subnet 192.168.106.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 
{ 
  option routers 192.168.106.254;

  host gestur
    {
       hardware ethernet 00:00:00:00:E8:E8;
       fixed-address 192.168.106.12;
       server-name "skyfari";
       option root-path "skyfari/export/diskless/root/gestur";
       option tftp-server-name "skyfari";
       option host-name "gestur";
       filename "netbsd.aout-GENERIC";
    }
}

Håkan

Robert> That chip is a NE2000 clone, it should work, but you will need to
Robert> reference it as "ne0" not "de0".