Subject: Re: Netbooting a Sparc4 from a Linux box
To: None <port-sparc@netbsd.org>
From: Simon J. Gerraty <sjg@quick.com.au>
List: port-sparc
Date: 02/13/2000 23:33:04
>> On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Sean Murphy wrote:
>> 
>> > Ok, here's the deal.  For the past 2 days I've been trying to netboot my
>> > SparcStation4 diskless station off my P100 Slackware 7 Linux box.  I've
>> > gone through the Diskless howto religiously, scoured backissues of this
>> > list, and pretty much pulled my hair out trying to make it work :-)
>> >
>> > The sparc loads the bootloader (i've tried both Net and OpenBSD
>> > bootloaders).  The following output is produced:
>> >
>> > boot: client IP address: 198.166.5.45
>> > recvrpc: reject, astat=1, errno=1
>> > bootparamd: 'whoami' call failed

FWIW I've seen similar results trying to netboot a classic from a
NetBSD 1.4/sun4c and Solaris 2.6 (Ultra 60).
I'd been netbooting these machines for ages and couldn't work out what 
had broken... when I rebooted the sun4c with a kernel that did NOT have
IPv6 enabled it all just worked again.

I sent some details to this list - last year I think.

--sjg