Subject: HELP: Booting NetBSD-Sparc over network
To: None <port-sparc@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Christian <PLAZAS_CHRISTIAN@mercury.csg.peachnet.edu>
List: port-sparc
Date: 07/10/1996 16:59:48
Hi all,

    I have been trying to install NetBSD-Sparc over my LAN and I 
can't get the machine to boot. I have followed all the directions in 
the documentation but I still can't get it to work.  The boot server 
is a 486 running FreeBSD and the client is a Sparcstation SLC.  Here 
is an excerpt of what happens when it tries to boot:

    ok boot le()netbsd
    Probing Memory Bank# 1 2 3 4 5
    Scrub Memory and Set Mappings
    Booting from: le(0,0,0)netbsd
    b200 >> NetBSD BOOT [$Revision: 1.4 $]
    boot: client IP Address: 168.26.193.72
    boot: client name: athena
    root addr=168.26.193.19 path=/usr/export/root/athena
    Can't open network device `le(0,0,0)'
    open: netbsd: Unknown error: code -1
    device[le(0,0,0)]:
    
Everything seems to go ok until the "Can't open network device" 
error.  I have no idea what is going on, can somebody please help?

Thanks in advance,
C.P.

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Christian Plazas <plazas_christian@cc.csg.peachnet.edu>
Columbus College, Columbus,GA
706.568.2063
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