I'm thinking I wasn't specific enough.  at this point,
1.6 boots fine (and is somewhat useable), 2 and 3 hang
after the kernel is loaded, I believe when it is
trying to mount the root partition using nfs.  I've
used Ethereal to monitor what is going on, and I see
the initial BOOTP request from the NeXT firmware, as
well as all of the tftp and NFS packets.  What I don't
see is the dhcp request from the kernel before it
attempts to mopunt the NFS root...

Any ideas?
Dustin
--- Andrew Daugherity <andrew.daugherity@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On 10/6/05, Dustin Smous <dsmous@sbcglobal.net>
> wrote:
> > Ok, Booting goes good until it gets to nfs_boot:
> > trying DHCP/BOOTP.  I've used Ethereal to see what
> is
> > going on, and the last packet sent is an NFS Read
> > Reply from loading the kernel.  My thought is that
> I
> > can't run MAKEDEV on my host system (Red Hat FC3).
>  Is
> > this the case??  Has anyone else had this
> problem??
> > I've had it up and running before, after having
> the
> > same problem, but for the life of me, I can't
> figure
> > out what I did to fix it...
> >
> > Running a NeXTstation with 20MB ram...
> >
> > Dustin Smous
> >
> 
> As Darrin mentioned, you're not at the point of
> worrying about MAKEDEV yet.
> 
> What appears to be happening is that the bootloader
> is unable to get
> the address of the NFS server.  Once it does, it
> loads the kernel over
> NFS -- your machine has not loaded the kernel yet. 
> When the kernel is
> loaded, the screen will turn to white text on black,
> with a SUN font.
> 
> If your NFS/tftp server (they really need to be the
> same machine) is a
> different machine than your dhcp server, you need to
> specify that with
> the "next-server" setting; see dhcpd.conf(5) for
> more info.  If you
> aren't running the ISC dhcpd (shipped with most *NIX
> OSes), you'll
> need to look up the appropriate documentation for
> your dhcp server. 
> Here's the relevant section of my dhcpd.conf:
> ===
> 
> host denethor {
>   hardware ethernet 00:00:0f:01:28:7e;
>   fixed-address 172.17.17.103;
>   option host-name "denethor";
>   option tftp-server-name "argonath";
> 
>   next-server argonath;         # tftp/nfs server
>   filename "boot";              # which file in
> /tftpboot to boot
>   option root-path "/usr/local/next_root";      #
> NFS root
>   always-reply-rfc1048 false;   # required for
> next68k
> }
> 
> ===
> Obviously you'll need to change the MAC address,
> assigned IP address
> (make it something in your subnet, but not in the
> automatically
> assigned range, if you have one), root-path, etc. 
> In my case,
> "denethor" is my NeXT and "argonath" is my tftp/nfs
> server (argonath
> is in the /etc/hosts file on my dhcp server; if it
> wasn't I'd specify
> its IP address instead).
> 
> It wouldn't hurt to read through the Diskless NetBSD
> howto (especially
> the next68k-specific parts), from
> http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/network/netboot/
> .
> 
> I also had to use 'arp -s ....' on my tftp/nfs
> server to add my NeXT's
> MAC to the arp table to get it to boot.  Also, for
> some reason the
> first ben() attempt always fails on my NeXT, but the
> second works. 
> You wouldn't be getting to the point you're at if
> these were problems,
> though.
> 
> Hope some of this is helpful.
> 
> Andrew
>