On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 09:01:05PM +0900, Izumi Tsutsui wrote:
> In <Pine.SGI.4.10.10012191912230.11814-100000@thor.tetracon-eng.net>
> jsk@tetracon-eng.net wrote:
> 
> >> a nasty memory leak problem.  And last but not least, if memory serves, you'll
> >> want to use the boot.net from NetBSD 1.3, as the boot.net from 1.4 and later
> >> seems to be broken on older machines.
> 
> > I think you're right there.  It seems like I had to step back a ways to
> > get it booted, but once up, and pointed at the newer sources, it went ok.
> 
> The newer boot.net requires a gateway IP address via bootparam.
> You have to add a gateway entry in /etc/bootparams like:
> ---
> client	root=server:/export/sun3/root \
> 	gateway=192.168.1.1:0xffffff00
> ---
> Without this fix, the newer bootloader will boot up after
> quite long timeout, anyway.
> ---

That was true on the older one too.  I remember having to do that.
Newer boot.net's still didn't work.  Same goes for my Sun4/110.

-Mark