Thnx Bernd,

I had allready tried to setup bootp (and afterwards dhcp in stead) ...
I don't know exactly why (yet), but after the RARP reply from my
rarp-server, the HP box send out a a requist to any bootp server, but
it doesn't get a response; neither when using bootp nor dhcp.

18:41:01.361914 rarp who-is HP tell HP
18:41:01.366307 rarp reply HP at hp.godsells.org
18:41:01.538972 hp.godsells.org.1023 > 255.255.255.255.sunrpc: udp 96

Why isn't my bootpd answering, or is it asking something else ?  I get
responses from my bootpd by using the bootptest program, so I know
it's working.

Any idea ?

grtz,
gert

On 5/9/05, Bernd Sieker <bsieker@rvs.uni-bielefeld.de> wrote:
> On 09.05.05, 19:47:17, Djeezus wrote:
> > Hy all,
> >
> > i've been using NetBSD for some time to run on my HP9000/400 system;
> > the disks are fried so I run it diskless.  But now I wonder why on
>=20
> Older, smaller SCSI disks are really cheap on ebay these days, if
> the fried disk is the main reason for using netboot.
>=20
> > earth there's no "netbsd.DISKLESS.gz" anymore since the 1.4.3 release
> > ?
> >
> > I've tried using the 1.6.2 SYS_UBOOT together with 1.4.1
> > netbsd-DISKLESS.gz,  i boot the HP, select "SYS_BOOT" from network
> > boot menu ... it loads fine and show user interface .... but the
> > SYS_BOOT images does nothing after I hit [return] on the HP box
> > keyboard ... this is where it should start doing its rarp lookups and
> > getting its bootinfo from the bootparamd and so on ... but it seems to
> > be lacking support for doing rarp lookups.
> >
> > All i get from the HP box is this (tcpdump log) :
> > 19:37:36.160886 0.0.0.0.bootpc > 255.255.255.255.bootps:  file ""[|boot=
p]
> >
> > Is there something broken or am I missing something that's not broken ;=
-)
>=20
> I don't have 1.6 sources lying around any longer, but in 2.0 the
> GENERIC kernel can boot diskless. But the only protocol it speaks
> to get boot information is BOOTP. It no longer uses the obsolete
> rarp/bootparam. Since the HP prom doesn't use rarp, either (but
> HP's proprietary rboot protocol), this is not really a loss.
>=20
> dhcpd can answer bootp requests. I haven't tried very recently,
> but I have booted 2.0_BETA and 2.0_RCn snapshots via network on my
> HP9000/425s.
>=20
> >
> > thnx & bye,
> > gert
> >
>=20
> --
> Bernd Sieker
>=20
> NetBSD: userland included
>=20


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