On Nov 14, 2004, at 11:23 PM, Urban Boquist wrote:

> So maybe it's time for some good old printf debugging then?

I'd have no idea where to start.

> P.S. Btw, is your NFS server an i386 by any chance?

sparc64.  And I've booted several of my other hardware machines from 
this server (next68k, macppc, sparc).

> I've seen weird
> hangs on other machines netbooting from PCs and then it helped to
> reduce the NFS RW size used by the kernel initially. There is a kernel
> option for this, NFS_BOOT_RWSIZE or something like that.

But it has nothing to do with NFS.  It loads the kernel via tftp, next 
it should send a DHCP request to find where the NFS root filesystem is. 
  Any other suggestions?

   -- MW