Subject: Re: what is the net boot sequence?
To: None <melody@voicenet.com>
From: Gordon W. Ross <gwr@mc.com>
List: port-sun3
Date: 08/07/1996 11:59:41
> Date: Tue, 6 Aug 1996 17:43:05 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Melody Lynn Yoon <melody@voicenet.com>
> 
> On Tue, 6 Aug 1996, Henry W Miller wrote:
> 
> > I'm attempting to bot a 3/60 from a linux box.  I see on the consol the 
> > sun get its ip address, and tftp boot something.  Then it says attempting 
> > to get ip addres of 8:0:  (whatever its hardware address is) and things 
> > stop.  What part of my linux box do I need to fix to continue this boot 
> > procosses?  A description of all the revelent messages to the boot 
> > sequence would be much appreacated.
> 
> Hi Henry. I didn't boot my 3/60 originally off of a linux box, but off of
> a SS10 running Sol2.5... However, it looks like you're having the same
> problem I did.
> 
> From what I can tell, the netboot program is just broken. It doesn't work.

That is true of the netboot program distributed with 1.1 when run on
older Sun3/50 machines.  The version in 1.1-patch1 fixed the problem.
The fixed netboot can be found on
  ftp.netbsd.org:/pub/NetBSD/arch/sun3/netboot-12e

You could also just use the SunOS boot program, but that will not load
the kernel symbol table for the DDB kernel debugger...

Gordon