Hi,

> please check your src/usr.sbin/portmap/portmap.c. Revisions 1.14 and 1.15
> don't work on sparc (or any other non network byte order architecture).
> You need 1.16 or above.

Thanks for the hint, I'll do that. But it seems strange, because the kernel
gets downloaded to the diskless machine without problems. And, this all worked
before I upgraded my etc.

Strings tells me that my Portmap is rather ancient:
$NetBSD: portmap.c,v 1.12 1997/10/18 11:06:08 lukem Exp $

Network byte order should therefore not be a problem. I've upgraded to the
current portmap (and rebooted to restart all portmap-dependent services) 
and the problem is still the same.

Regards, Paul.

>> Is anyone able to shed some light on this one? It's got me stumped for
>> more than a week now.
>> I have an SLC that I run diskless of an IPX. I've recently upgraded it's
>> kernel to a current one, and that was no problem: but ever since upgrading
>> the /etc-directory, I can't boot it anymore: It always hangs at the point
>> where / needs to be remounted to be read-write. 
>> NFS Portmap: RPC Port mapper failure: RPC Unable to send. (repeats forever)
>> At this stage the network-interface is not yet re-configured, but
>> still working fine: I can ping the machine when it is in this state.
>> Adding an early call to ifconfig hasn't solved the problem either.
>> 
>> Do other people have this same problem, or can you succesfully boot
>> a diskless sparc? Please let me know. Any hints very welcome.
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