I've got my bootp and rpc.bootparamd running with -d (debug mode), and I  
hold down both left and right buttons to have the qube netboot.  The LCD  
on the qube displays 'Net Booting', and I get the output below on the  
serial port, but it apparently never hits either server (or they are  
broken, as I get no output from either).  I thought it might be because  
they were on a switch, so i changed to a hub, that didn't help.

Serial Port output on the Qube:
Cobalt Microserver Diagnostics - 'We serve it, you surf it'
Built Tue May 25 15:58:41 PDT 1999

 1.LCD Test................................PASS
 2.Controller Test.........................PASS
 5.Bank 0:.................................16M
 6.Bank 1:.................................0M
 7.Bank 2:.................................0M
 8.Bank 3:.................................0M
 9.Serial Test.............................PASS
10.PCI Expansion Slot....................**EMPTY**
12.IDE Test................................PASS
13.Ethernet Test...........................PASS
16.RTC Test................................PASS
Decompressing done
Executing bootloader kernel...
Jump_to_Real_Kernel: disk error, trying BFD again

bootparamd output:
root@icecube(6)# /usr/etc/rpc.bootparamd -d
In debug mode

bootpd output:
root@icecube(21)# /usr/etc/bootpd -d


I'm not sure that my bootpd works, but I'm unsure of how to test it.

any ideas?

Thanks,

Robert

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