On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 21:53:34 +0200
Jochen Kunz <jkunz@unixag-kl.fh-kl.de> wrote:

> > I didn't type all the text. The 2nd stage bootloader iterates through
> > different files it tries all without success.
> You mean it tries to load various different kernel images like "netbsd",
> "netbsd.old", "netbsd.gz", ...? 
Yes.
> Are you sure you have a valid kernel
> image in your / file system? My faforite misstake when installing by
> hand is to forget /boot or /netbsd... ;-)

> Maybe the boot code is confused because your / file system doesn't start
> at sector 0?

backed up, changed disklabel, newfs, reinstalled ... and .. boots, okay!

YES, that's been the case!

Now I can alter at the boot prompt, wether I want diskless or stand-alone;
 great!!!
That will probably help testing the network problem, i've filed a PR on that
one: kern/31540: iee0: iee_intr: receive ring buffer overrun

That's not exaktly what I described the first time here on the list. This 
happend later, but on the upside there is some starting point with the console
output.

Related to network anomalities:

gecko# ping ibook
PING ibook (192.168.2.3): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.168.2.3: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=10.000 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.2.3: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=0.000 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.2.3: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=0.000 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.2.3: icmp_seq=3 ttl=255 time=0.000 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.2.3: icmp_seq=4 ttl=255 time=0.000 ms

Pinging some "farther away hosts" over the gateway all ping times are multiples
of 10msec!
Does anyone see the same, i.e. is this related to port-hp700 or to the driver
iee?


/rudi