Subject: Re: Problem booting Indy
To: None <port-sgimips@netbsd.org>
From: Jeff Utter <jeff@canton.ny.us>
List: port-sgimips
Date: 01/13/2002 09:26:12
Hey, can you give me a link to where you found this information?
mrynet.com seems to be down, and i'd like to read it, thanks.

On Sun, 2002-01-13 at 02:58, Scott Barron wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 01:19:28AM -0500, Scott Barron wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I'm having a small problem getting an Indy booted and was wondering if
> > anyone could help me out.  Here's what I've got:  I serial console into
> > the Indy and can get it to pull the kernel via tftp and boot that.  I
> > have dhcpd answer the bootp request, which it does as shown by syslog.
> > When the kernel tries to mount / via NFS, however, it times out.  When I
> > watch the traffic with tcpdump I can see the initial bootp request and
> > then the tftp transfer of the kernel but after that I never see dhcp or
> > NFS traffic on the wire.  My NFS is set up correctly as I have a VAX
> > mounting its / from this machine via NFS, so I've ruled that out.  I
> > can't figure out why I wouldn't be seeing the dhcp or NFS traffic after
> > the kernel boots.  Anyone got any ideas about this?  I have dhcpd serve
> > up the same IP address as I set in the PROM on the Indy and it seems to
> > work OK to tftp the kernel, so I'm at a loss.  Thanks for any help.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > -Scott
> 
> Nevermind, problem solved!  I found a link to the stuff on mrynet.com
> and managed to get an ftp install going on the Indy.  All is well ...
> for now.
> 
> Thanks,
> -Scott