Just to update everyone...

I got the last pieces of my hp319 test machine tonight ... hooked them 
all up, and decided to hack on netboot for a while ...

To make a long story short, I was successful in rarping for the client IP 
address, using bootparams to get root/swap info, NFS mounting the root 
filesystem, and loading and running the kernel.

...and when it dawned on me what was making the boot fail all this time 
...rarpd has this presumably historical stupidity (IMHO) of not 
responding to the rarp request _unless_ there is a file in /tftpboot that 
is a hexadecimal representation of the client's IP address.  This, of 
course, makes sense for Suns (given that they tftp the boot code), but 
not for HPs.

In any case, I'm going to commit the boot code RSN, after I tidy up a few 
things and make sure that the changes I made to stand/conf.c didn't break 
disk booting.  Before it works `for real', swapgeneric is going to need 
some help ... I have a long weekend this week, so maybe I'll get to it 
then.  (Eeek ... probably have to hack config.old, too :-|)

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