Subject: Re: netbooting hppa boxes
To: Darren Reed <darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au>
From: Matt Fredette <fredette@theory.lcs.mit.edu>
List: port-hp700
Date: 07/02/2002 10:12:43
> > Newer machines use DHCP and TFTP to netboot, this may be one.
> 
> Ah yes, DHCP!
> 
> Do you know what it's expecting back?
> BOOTREQUEST from 08:00:09:d2:72:c2 via le0
> BOOTREPLY for 192.168.1.170 to d390-1 (08:00:09:d2:72:c2) via le0
> 
> but all the console shows is "Failed to initialize".

This page talks some about the models that use DHCP:

http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/network/netboot/intro.hp700.html

This page has an example /etc/bootptab configuration:

http://openbsd.org/hppa.html

I don't know much more, as all of my machines are of the rbootd vintage.

Matt

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Matt Fredette