Subject: Re: What's with this SS1 anyway?
To: None <kpneal@eos.ncsu.edu>
From: Greg Earle <earle@isolar.Tujunga.CA.US>
List: port-sparc
Date: 02/18/1998 07:29:45
> I'm attempting to net boot off of the 5 (hushpuppy.csc) and am having
> no luck. 
> 
[...]
> 
> The error I'm getting right after 'boot net' is:
> Got error packet: Error Code 1 Message: File not found
> 
> It doesn't seem to load the boot program at all.

I suspect the 1's have Really Old PROMs.

Do you have a symlink in /tftpboot, *also* named "tftpboot", pointing to "."?

i.e.

	# cd /tftpboot
	# ln -s . tftpboot

> I'm not even sure the machine is rarp'ing.  How can I check (don't even
> say tcpdump).  Just because this lab is used for the OS classes and some
> of the networking classes doesn't mean that tcpdump'ing the network is an
> option available to me.  *grumblegrumble*

OK, I'll bite - how did you get the boot files into /tftpboot without "root"
access?  :-)

> I've tried every combination of extension and no extension on the boot
> file sitting in /tftpboot with no joy.  The extension ".SUN4C" works
> just fine for the 1+, I assume the 1 uses the same extension? 

I'm pretty sure that's true.

> These 1's have boot prom version 1.0.  Is there some special magic to get
> these old machines working?

Ah, so you *do* have old PROMs ...

> One additional note: The 1+ says 'no keyboard' in the banner it prints
> on power on.  The 1s (both of them) don't say 'no keyboard', they don't
> have anything in that space.  If I hook up a real honest-to-God Type 5
> keyboard and poweron then they print 'Type 4 keyboard'.  Huh?  Shouldn't
> the 1 and 1+ behave the same way?

Repeat after me ... "Old PROMs ... old PROMs ... old PROMs ..."
You really want at least 1.6 PROMs for those suckers.  1.3's at a minimum ...

	- Greg