Ladies and Gents,

since I raised some of my issues with installing NetBSD an an Indy on the 
list I think I should provide the answers as well.

It is all in the FAQs. :)

1) I could not bring a headless Indy into PROM mode by pressing ESC on the 
serial console. => Swapping the console cable fixed the problem (I'm using:
  <Mac modem cable>-<null modem>-<Cisco console cable>; Cisco console cable 
:= DB25-to-RJ45 "Terminal" plug + RJ45 rollover cable).

2) Using PROM to boot a kernel from a TFTP server produces "wrong magic 
number" error messages but does not boot the kernel. => Booting an 
uncompressed ECOFF kernel fixed the problem (booting a gzipped ECOFF 
kernel produced the same "wrong magic number" messages).

3) Using PROM to boot a kernel from a TFTP server starts but then times 
out with error message "no such device". => Modifying the TFTP setting on 
the server (NetBSD/alpha) fixed the problem (sysctl -w 
net.inet.ip.anonportmin=20000, sysctl -w net.inet.ip.anonportmax=32767).

Thanks to the list and special thanks to Rafal.

Best regards,
/Markus.

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Markus A. Boeing
mailto://markus@boeing-online.de
http://www.boeing-online.de
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