Subject: Shark netbooting question.
To: NetBSD/arm32 Mailing List <port-arm32@netbsd.org>
From: Brian D Chase <bdc@world.std.com>
List: port-arm32
Date: 05/08/1999 13:55:23
I'm attempting to get my Shark netbooted from a NetBSD/sparc system,
but I'm not quite sure what I should be specifying on the Shark's PROM to
initiate the boot.  

I'm using a slightly old 19981001 snapshot, but it's the only one I've got
this side of my 28.8 modem :-)  I'll get a more recent one once I get this
thing booted an on my net.

The DHCP server is running on the Sun with this configuration:

option domain-name "mydomain.com";
option domain-name-servers 192.168.102.1;

subnet 192.168.102.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
  option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
  option broadcast-address 192.168.102.255;
  option routers 192.168.102.1;
}

host pez {
  hardware ethernet 08:00:2b:aa:bb:cc;
  fixed-address 192.168.102.42;
  filename "netbsd";
  option root-path "/export/pez/root";
}

The DHCP server sees a boot request from the Shark if I just enter "boot
net", but the Shark reports "[...]TP error: No such file or directory."
(The [...] is because the video out is cut off on the left edge of the
NTSC monitor I'm using, to I don't know if that's supposed to be FTP,
TFTP, or BOOTP.)  The /export/pez/root path is correctly NFS exported. The
"netbsd" kernel is within /export/pez/root, but is a symlink to
SHARK-netboot.

-brian.
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