[reply-to: set to to tech-kern, i don't think this is an i386-specific issue.]


maximum entropy <entropy@zippy.bernstein.com> writes:

>Here's one other minor bit of flakiness I experienced.  When booting
>diskless (with any bootblocks, and also with netboot.com) the kernel
>boots, the system starts going multiuser, and then with no apparent
>pattern the system has about a 50% chance of either coming up or
>crashing to the kernel debugger.

>... The crash occurs at _nfs_reply+0x09 (that's from memory so don't
>quote me on it)


I think I'll quote you anyway:).
See PR kern/3579 for source analysis and a patch for this problem.
It works for me.

What's the netmask on this subnet?  Is it non-octet-aligned?