Subject: Re: Problem booting Indy
To: None <port-sgimips@netbsd.org>
From: Jeff Utter <funk@softhome.net>
List: port-sgimips
Date: 01/13/2002 11:25:26
oh, ok.. does this only work on an INDY, because i was hopeing for
something that would work on an o2, i read that there was minimal o2
support on the netbsd webpage (i think) and was hopeing i could play w/
it on my o2.

and yeah, myrnet.com works now.. didn't earlier *shrugs*

On Sun, 2002-01-13 at 11:08, Scott G. Akmentins-Taylor wrote:
> Hi Jeff,
> 
> If you're having a problem with mrynet.com accessibility, please
> let me know.  There have been no outages I am aware of.
> 
> Scott Barron is most likely referring to a snapshot area I have
> for NetBSD/sgimips-INDY I make available:
> 
> 	/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.5.2-sgimips/INDY/
> 	located at ftp.mrynet.com
> 
> There are two snapshots there:
> 	20011218	Tested
> 	20011222	Tested, but not much exposure
> 
> -scott
> 
> --
> Scott G. Akmentins-Taylor     InterNet: staylor@mrynet.com
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>     (Skots Gregorijs Akmentins-Teilors -- just call me "Skots")
> 		----- Labak miris neka sarkans -----
> 
> > Hey, can you give me a link to where you found this information?
> > mrynet.com seems to be down, and i'd like to read it, thanks.
> > 
> > On Sun, 2002-01-13 at 02:58, Scott Barron wrote:
> > > On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 01:19:28AM -0500, Scott Barron wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > > 
> > > > I'm having a small problem getting an Indy booted and was wondering if
> > > > anyone could help me out.  Here's what I've got:  I serial console into
> > > > the Indy and can get it to pull the kernel via tftp and boot that.  I
> > > > have dhcpd answer the bootp request, which it does as shown by syslog.
> > > > When the kernel tries to mount / via NFS, however, it times out.  When I
> > > > watch the traffic with tcpdump I can see the initial bootp request and
> > > > then the tftp transfer of the kernel but after that I never see dhcp or
> > > > NFS traffic on the wire.  My NFS is set up correctly as I have a VAX
> > > > mounting its / from this machine via NFS, so I've ruled that out.  I
> > > > can't figure out why I wouldn't be seeing the dhcp or NFS traffic after
> > > > the kernel boots.  Anyone got any ideas about this?  I have dhcpd serve
> > > > up the same IP address as I set in the PROM on the Indy and it seems to
> > > > work OK to tftp the kernel, so I'm at a loss.  Thanks for any help.
> > > > 
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > -Scott
> > > 
> > > Nevermind, problem solved!  I found a link to the stuff on mrynet.com
> > > and managed to get an ftp install going on the Indy.  All is well ...
> > > for now.
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > -Scott
>