Are you using the GENERIC kernel for both machines? Do you see an le0 (or equiv 
ethernet) device on the 2000 during the initial part of the kernel boot? From 
my short term playing with netbooting vaxen, it looks like the kernel refusing 
to see the ethernet on the vax in question will make that vax not even try to 
mount nfs anything.

Did that make sense?

Thanks
Paul


On Tuesday, July 11, 2000 2:53 PM, Rink Springer [SMTP:rink@springer.cx] wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "PaulT" <ptice@p2.net>
> To: "'Rink Springer'" <rink@springer.cx>
> Cc: <port-vax@netbsd.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2000 10:07 PM
> Subject: RE: DSSI Support?
>
> Well, the weird part is that my VAX 4000/300 boots fine, but my MicroVAX
> 2000 (I think it was) does not... I use bootpd and mopd, and it mounts from
> a FreeBSD box.
>
> --Rink
>
>
> > I used the mopd from the 1.5-Alpha, then used bootp instead of bootparam.
> This
> > worked fine for the 1.4.2 kernel except, of course, that 1.4.2 doesn't
> support
> > the ethernet on the 3300!
> > This caused my old kernel to refuse to acknowledge that NFS was even
> available.
> > Upgrading to the 1.5-GENERIC worked for me. If it is failing to load / (as
> > opposed to not TRYING to load / ) you might try mounting your NFS export
> local
> > to your bootserver and make sure that it is -maproot=root
> >
> > Oh, and if you do go with the newer mop.boot and use bootp (it's easier
> and WAY
> > faster than bootparam), be aware that you need short paths to your root.
> > /usr/vax/root works fine for me, but /usr/export/vaxen/root did not.
> >
> > If you need, I can grab my bootptab files this eve and mail em over to you
> as
> > an example.
> >
> > Good Luck
> > Paul
> >
> >
> > On Tuesday, July 11, 2000 2:10 PM, Rink Springer [SMTP:rink@springer.cx]
> wrote:
> > > Snip -(Q RE Vax2000 netboot)
> > ----------------------------------
> > I tried hacking NetBSD onto my solar powered calculator.
> > But the sun is never out when I'm hacking, so I couldn't test it.
> > ----------------------------------
> >