Off hand its a TFTP error. You do have the kernel in /tftpboot don't you? If
not copy it there (as netbsd from the looks of things) and try again.

P.

Brian D Chase wrote:

> 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.
> ---
> Brian "JARAI" Chase | http://world.std.com/~bdc/ | VAXZilla LIVES!!!

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