On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Matt Spong wrote:

> Hi
>
> I'm trying to get NetBSD to netboot from a Linux server, and I've
> followed the HOWTO on netbsd.org.  I've got everything set up according
> to the directions, and everything on the server is (as far as I can
> tell) working fine.  It doesn't seem to be working though... it loads
> ofwboot.xcf fine, mounts the root share from NFS, loads the kernel over
> TFTP, and then hangs.
>
> Here is the output from the boot process:
>
> >> NetBSD/macppc OpenFirmware Boot, Revision 1.2
> >> (matt@duel.local, Sat Aug 18 13:46:09 PDT 2001)
> file: 192.168.0.1,ofwboot.xcfUsing IP address: 192.168.0.222
> root addr=192.168.0.1 path=/export/client/root
> 2931820+237444 [100+106512\

Make sure 'real-base' is set to 'f00000'; "setenv real-base f00000". I
netboot all the time, and that's about what I see when I have real-base
set to -1 (which is the value MacOS X wants).

Take care,

Bill