Subject: Re: netbooting an IPX, stuck at NFS mounting root fs
To: Tom Kooij <tom_kooij@hotmail.com>
From: Martin Weber <Ephaeton@gmx.net>
List: port-sparc
Date: 02/07/2004 23:35:56 
On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 10:50:32PM +0100, Tom Kooij wrote:
> I'm trying to netboot a SPARCstation IPX. (netbsd-1.6.1)
> 
> On the PC (Debian linux) I have rarp, tftp, portmap, bootparam, nfsd, 
> mountd etc etc. NFS works fine on the PC. (as it seems) (...)

Does the etc. etc. include a running dhcpd with options like these:

group {
	# ... all kinds of stuff, see netbooting howto
	host your.host {
		hardware-ethernet	0:de:ad:be:ef:0;
		fixed-address	wh.at.ev.er;
		# this one ?
		option root-path "/path/to/root-image";
	}
}

and you made sure you have no typo there ? (happened to me first time).

Hth,

-Martin