Subject: Re: Need assistance in diskless booting a 1+ via linux
To: Volker Schmidt <volker@Illuminatus.MZ.Rhein-Main.DE>
From: David Brownlee <david@mono.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 02/18/1997 22:38:06
=09Hmm.. have you run './MAKEDEV all' in /export/sundown/root/dev ?

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On 18 Feb 1997, Volker Schmidt wrote:

> Hello!
>=20
> I'm on the way bringing up a 1+ (native diskless, 64 MByte Ram,
> Boot-Prom 1.3, equipped with two IBM 0662-S12) via diskless
> booting over NFS from a Linux box (Kernel 2.0.29, bootparamd
> is installed from NetKit-0.09).
>=20
> I can tftp the secondary bootloader. The kernel does come up and
> checks various devices. That much is OK.
>=20
> It asks bootparamd for a "root" entry for the diskless host:
>=20
> whoami got question for 192.168.98.131
> This is host sundown.mz.rhein-main.de
> Returning sundown   (none)    127.0.0.1
> getfile got question for "sundown" and file "root"
> returning server:Illuminatus path:/export/sundown/root address: 192.168.9=
8.128
>=20
> Then the question for "swap" and the answer:
>=20
> getfile got question for "sundown" and file "swap"
> returning server:Illuminatus path:/export/sundown/swap address: 192.168.9=
8.128
>=20
> My mountd shows this as:
>=20
> mountd[1010] 02/18/97 19:47 mnt [1 70/1/1 01:00:00  0.0] /export/sundown/=
root
> mountd[1010] 02/18/97 19:47     mount res =3D 0
> mountd[1010] 02/18/97 19:48 mnt [1 70/1/1 01:00:00  0.0] /export/sundown/=
root
> mountd[1010] 02/18/97 19:48     mount res =3D 0
> mountd[1010] 02/18/97 19:48 mnt [1 70/1/1 01:00:00  0.0] /export/sundown/=
swap
> mountd[1010] 02/18/97 19:48     mount res =3D 0
>=20
> After that point the Sun screen freezes. On my nfsd log I found:
>=20
> nfsd[983] 02/18/97 19:48 getattr [1 70/1/1 01:00:00  0.0+0]
>         /export/sundown/root
> nfsd[983] 02/18/97 19:48 result: 0
> nfsd[983] 02/18/97 19:48 getattr [1 70/1/1 01:00:00  0.0+0]
>         03200802 03 0b0b7f
> nfsd[983] 02/18/97 19:48 result: 0
> nfsd[983] 02/18/97 19:48 lookup [1 70/1/1 01:00:00  0.0+0]
>         fh:/export/sundown/root n:sbin
> nfsd[983] 02/18/97 19:48        new_fh =3D
> /export/sundown/root/sbin
> nfsd[983] 02/18/97 19:48 result: 0
> nfsd[983] 02/18/97 19:48 lookup [1 70/1/1 01:00:00  0.0+0]
>         fh:/export/sundown/root/sbin n:init
> nfsd[983] 02/18/97 19:48        new_fh =3D
> /export/sundown/root/sbin/init
> nfsd[983] 02/18/97 19:48 result: 0
> nfsd[983] 02/18/97 19:48 getattr [1 70/1/1 01:00:00  0.0+0]
>         /export/sundown/root/sbin/init
> nfsd[983] 02/18/97 19:48 result: 0
> nfsd[983] 02/18/97 19:48 read [1 70/1/1 01:00:00  0.0+0]
>         /export/sundown/root/sbin/init: 8192 bytes at 0
> nfsd[983] 02/18/97 19:48 result: 0
> nfsd[983] 02/18/97 19:48 read [1 70/1/1 01:00:00  0.0+0]
>         /export/sundown/root/sbin/init: 8192 bytes at 155648
> nfsd[983] 02/18/97 19:48 result: 0
>=20
> My /etc/exports on Linux is:
>=20
> /export/sundown=09*.mz.rhein-main.de(rw,link_relative,no_root_squash,inse=
cure)
>=20
> Anybody out there who is willing to help me from finishing the
> boot process to get a prompt for installing?
>=20
> As an alternative: Is there a way to write a bootable tape
> (QIC-150 or QIC-525) without having a Solaris licencse?
>=20
> Thank you for your time reading this mess.
>=20
> tsch=F6,
> --volker
> --=20
> PGP public key available on request.
>=20
> UNIX is friendly, but it chooses it's friends!
>=20