I started having the same problem...

It started the day the stock hd failed, and was removed...

We can't be the only two with this problem...

On Wed, 2006-10-04 at 19:54 -0500, Jaime A Fournier wrote:
> I am trying to determine why since 2.0 the kernel hangs at
> nfs_boot: trying DHCP/BOOTP.
> 
> my dhcp entry for it is
>          host next {
>                  hardware ethernet 00:00:0f:00:e4:31;    # Adjust to your 
> MAC add
> ress
>                  fixed-address 24.153.xxx.xxx;                # Adjust
>                  always-reply-rfc1048 false;
>                  filename "/next";                    # XXX Do NOT set!
>                  option root-path "/stuff/next162";
>                  server-name="24.153.xxx.xxx";
>                  option broadcast-address 24.153.xxx.255;
>                  option domain-name "linbsd.org";
>                  option domain-name-servers dns.linbsd.org;
>                  option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
>                  next-server 24.153.xxx.xxx;
>          }
>   And the /etc/bootptab entry is
> next.linbsd.org:\
>          :ht=ether:\
>          :sm=255.255.255.0:\
>          :lg=24.153.xxx.xxx:\
>          :ip=24.153.xxx.xxx:\
>          :hn:\
>          :bf=next:\
>          :bs=auto:\
>          :rp=/stuff/next/:\
>          :vm=auto:\
>          :tc=.test:
> 
> 1.6.2 kernels work fine, but anything newer fails at the above mentioned 
> prompt. I wanted to get into ddb> to see if I could find out where it's 
> at.
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> -Ober
>