Hey Brian,

I don't have any answer to what the problem is, but what I can tell you is
that I had some problems installing on my /260 over tftp as well.

My problem may be isolated to Linux as this is the platform i used, anyway
here goes.

1) Make sure you have the correct install-image (ELF, Ecoff)

2) Correct bootp configurations. I use dhcpd configured as follows:
//
subnet 192.168.254.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
}
host snuttefilt {
   hardware ethernet 08:00:2B:2C:C3:FC;
   fixed-address 192.168.0.1;
   filename "boot";
   option root-path "/export/root";
}
///

3) NFS configured properly.

4) And finaly the most important thing of them all, add a static arp entry
for the host!
///
/sbin/arp -s 192.168.0.1 08:00:2B:2C:C3:FC

BTW, I installed NetBSD 1.5.



Good luck!

/Rickard


On Thu, 21 Jun 2001, Brian Hechinger wrote:

> just got NetBSD 1.5.1 BETA2 on my /260, so now i'm motivated to get it onto my
> /240 as well (the /240 previously ran 1.4 until disk death)
>
> i've never seen this before, any ideas?  is my ethernet hardware hosed? can
> this be recovered from?
>
> thanks!!
>
> -brian
>
> >>cnfg 3
>  3: KN03-AA  DEC      V5.2b    TCF0  (120 MB)
>                                      (enet: 08-00-2b-39-bf-54)
>                                      (SCSI = 7)
>             ---------------------------------------------------
>             DEV   PID                VID        REV    SCSI DEV
>             ===== ================== ========== ====== ========
>             rz2   RZ26     (C) DEC   DEC        392A   DIR
>
>         dcache( 64 KB), icache( 64 KB)
>         mem( 0):  a0000000:a07fffff  (  8 MB)
>         mem( 1):  a0800000:a0ffffff  (  8 MB)
>         mem( 2):  a1000000:a17fffff  (  8 MB)
>         mem( 3):  a1800000:a1ffffff  (  8 MB)
>         mem( 4):  a2000000:a27fffff  (  8 MB)
>         mem( 5):  a2800000:a2ffffff  (  8 MB)
>         mem( 6):  a3000000:a37fffff  (  8 MB)
>         mem( 7):  a3800000:a3ffffff  (  8 MB)
>         mem( 8):  a4000000:a47fffff  (  8 MB)
>         mem( 9):  a4800000:a4ffffff  (  8 MB)
>         mem(10):  a5000000:a57fffff  (  8 MB)
>         mem(11):  a5800000:a5ffffff  (  8 MB)
>         mem(12):  a6000000:a67fffff  (  8 MB)
>         mem(13):  a6800000:a6ffffff  (  8 MB)
>         mem(14):  a7000000:a77fffff  (  8 MB)
>
> >>boot 3/tftp
>
> -tftp boot(3), bootp|?IO: LANCE sts 0xa2b3
> ?IO: LANCE sts 0xa2b3
>  172.16.2.3:install.pmax ?IO: LANCE sts 0xa6b3
> /?IO: LANCE sts 0xa6b3
>
> -tftp load 1138768-?IO: LANCE sts 0xa6b3
> \?IO: LANCE sts 0xa6b3
> |?IO: LANCE sts 0xa6b3
> /?IO: LANCE sts 0xa6b3
> -?IO: LANCE sts 0xa6b3
> \?IO: LANCE sts 0xa6b3
> |?IO: LANCE sts 0xa6b3
> /?IO: LANCE sts 0xa6b3
> -?IO: LANCE sts 0xa6b3
> \?IO: LANCE sts 0xa6b3
> |?IO: LANCE sts 0xa6b3
> /?IO: LANCE sts 0xa6b3
> -?IO: LANCE sts 0xa6b3
> \?IO: LANCE sts 0xa6b3
> |?IO: LANCE sts 0xa6b3
> /?IO: LANCE sts 0xa6b3
> -?IO: LANCE sts 0xa6b3
> \?IO: LANCE sts 0xa6b3
>