Subject: Re: NetBSD/ofppc boots multiuser on Pegasos
To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jorge_Acereda_Maci=E1?= <jacereda@gmail.com>
From: Simon Burge <simonb@NetBSD.org>
List: port-powerpc
Date: 07/28/2006 10:03:18
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jorge_Acereda_Maci=E1?= wrote:
> I finally got NetBSD/ofppc to boot multiuser via NFS on a Pegasos II
> motherboard. NFS reads are ok, but writes are broken (I suspect of a
> firmware bug, something to do with packet size, but have to verify it).
Does
options NFS_BOOT_RWSIZE=1024
help? This can help tremendously when your ethernet driver and/or
hardware isn't up to scratch where all the UDP retries on reads or
writes kill NFS.
Simon.