Paul,
please check your src/usr.sbin/portmap/portmap.c. Revisions 1.14 and 1.15
don't work on sparc (or any other non network byte order architecture).
You need 1.16 or above.

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Juergen Hannken-Illjes - hannken@eis.cs.tu-bs.de - TU Braunschweig (Germany)

> Hi everyone,
> 
> Is anyone able to shed some light on this one? It's got me stumped for
> more than a week now.
> I have an SLC that I run diskless of an IPX. I've recently upgraded it's
> kernel to a current one, and that was no problem: but ever since upgrading
> the /etc-directory, I can't boot it anymore: It always hangs at the point
> where / needs to be remounted to be read-write. 
> NFS Portmap: RPC Port mapper failure: RPC Unable to send. (repeats forever)
> At this stage the network-interface is not yet re-configured, but
> still working fine: I can ping the machine when it is in this state.
> Adding an early call to ifconfig hasn't solved the problem either.
> 
> Do other people have this same problem, or can you succesfully boot
> a diskless sparc? Please let me know. Any hints very welcome.
> 
> Regards, happy hacking, Paul.
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