Thus spake Jason Thorpe
>  darcy@druid.net (D'Arcy J.M. Cain) wrote:
>  > I am beginning to think I have a hardware problem on my HP9000/300
> No, I don't think there's a hardware problem...

I was hoping it wasn't but I was afraid it was just wishful thinking.

>  > ----------------------------- SOH ---------------------------------
>  > hpib0 at sc7
>  > >> NetBSD NETWORK BOOT HP9000/360 CPU
>  > >> $NetBSD: netboot.c,v 1.10 1995/10/04 07:24:32 thorpej Exp $
>  > Boot: [netbsd] [-s][-a][-d] :-
>  > boot: client IP address: 206.231.240.23
>  > boot: client name rapture
>  > root addr=206.231.240.17 path=/usr/local/nfsclient/rapture
>  > le(0,0,0,0) Unknown error: code -1
>  > boot: Unknown error: code -1
>  > ----------------------------- EOT ---------------------------------
> 
> Note, you've successfully rarp'd and done a bootparam for root.  Looks
> like you're probably losing here on the NFS mount of /.
> 
> Can you please try the SYS_UBOOT at:
> 
>   ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/hp300/snapshot/970105/SYS_UBOOT.gz

OK, I tried that and it does the same thing.  The Boot: line now says:

  Boot: [[[le0a:]netbsd] [-s][-a][-d]] :-


and of course updated version number cruft.  Here is the tcpdump:

17:17:18.734835 rarp reply rapture.druid.net at rapture.druid.net
17:17:18.879909 rapture.druid.net.1023 > 255.255.255.255.sunrpc: udp 96
17:17:18.904388 druid.net.sunrpc > rapture.druid.net.1023: udp 80
17:17:19.044711 arp who-has druid.net tell rapture.druid.net
17:17:19.044827 arp reply druid.net is-at 0:0:21:37:33:24
17:17:19.126542 rapture.druid.net.1022 > druid.net.627: udp 80
17:17:19.217766 druid.net.627 > rapture.druid.net.1022: udp 88
17:17:19.368445 rapture.druid.net.1021 > druid.net.sunrpc: udp 76
17:17:19.369535 druid.net.sunrpc > rapture.druid.net.1021: udp 28
17:17:19.477381 rapture.druid.net.1021 > druid.net.802: udp 88
17:17:19.479982 druid.net.802 > rapture.druid.net.1021: udp 28
17:17:24.040366 rarp reply rapture.druid.net at rapture.druid.net
17:17:24.185895 rapture.druid.net.1020 > 255.255.255.255.sunrpc: udp 96
17:17:24.205928 druid.net.sunrpc > rapture.druid.net.1020: udp 80
17:17:24.320397 rapture.druid.net.1019 > druid.net.627: udp 80
17:17:24.328646 druid.net.627 > rapture.druid.net.1019: udp 88
17:17:24.481801 rapture.druid.net.1018 > druid.net.802: udp 88
17:17:24.484348 druid.net.802 > rapture.druid.net.1018: udp 28
17:17:29.049699 rarp reply rapture.druid.net at rapture.druid.net
17:17:29.196195 rapture.druid.net.1017 > 255.255.255.255.sunrpc: udp 96
17:17:29.217556 druid.net.sunrpc > rapture.druid.net.1017: udp 80
17:17:29.357979 rapture.druid.net.1016 > druid.net.627: udp 80
17:17:29.366404 druid.net.627 > rapture.druid.net.1016: udp 88
17:17:29.519082 rapture.druid.net.1015 > druid.net.802: udp 88
17:17:29.521643 druid.net.802 > rapture.druid.net.1015: udp 28
17:17:34.082421 rarp reply rapture.druid.net at rapture.druid.net
17:17:34.256745 rapture.druid.net.1014 > 255.255.255.255.sunrpc: udp 96
17:17:34.276954 druid.net.sunrpc > rapture.druid.net.1014: udp 80
17:17:34.392005 rapture.druid.net.1013 > druid.net.627: udp 80
17:17:34.400357 druid.net.627 > rapture.druid.net.1013: udp 88
17:17:34.554017 rapture.druid.net.1012 > druid.net.802: udp 88
17:17:34.556539 druid.net.802 > rapture.druid.net.1012: udp 28

Thanks for your help.

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