On Tue, 22 Jul 1997, Lau Kin Jock wrote:
> Got myself a SS1+ w/ 1.3 ROMs and the _exact_ same problem... I'm
> booting off a Linux
> server.  Tftpd keeps sending the file, but the ss1+ won't take it for
> some reason.  _If_
> I first boot SunOS (from disk), then netbooting comes up fine.  Once in
> a bluemoon, with 
> the right flick of the power switch, it'll netboot without doing SunOS
> first.

Sounds like an arp problem.

I've got 3 or 4 machines that I netboot at random times (Xkernel hacking
and Sprite) and I've got to add an arp entry on my boot server to get them
to work.

*shrug*

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