Subject: Re: tftp booting stalls on 5000/150
To: None <port-pmax@netbsd.org>
From: Sven Rudolph <sr1@os.inf.tu-dresden.de>
List: port-pmax
Date: 02/23/1999 08:23:37
Sven Rudolph <sr1@os.inf.tu-dresden.de> writes:

> I have a DECstation 5000/150, KN04 V2.1k.
> 
> I try to boot it off a Linux system. Latest released (1.3.?)
> netbsd.ecoff.
> 
> 
> >> boot 3/tftp
> ... load 1250320\
> 
> The progress indicator spins for some seconds and suddenly stalls.
> Nothing happens anymore.

Solution: The bootp server created an arp entry that expired
quickly. And the tftp-in-progress DECstation didn't answer that
request.

I set a static arp entry, and now it works.
 
	Sven
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