I wrote:
> I'm trying to netboot a sparc ELC. The problem seems to be
> that the secondary loader (boot.net from 1.5)
> fails to connect to a bootparam server resulting in
> 'bootparamd failed whoami'. Needless to say, booting doesn't
> proceed beyond this.

Thanks for all the replies,

On DP's suggestion, I tried installing the servers (rarp, bootparamd)
on another OS, namely FreeBSD on a vacant i386.
And now bootparamd works!

However, the ramdisk netbsd.ram.aout seems to load but
finally results in an error:

boot: short read
ok

from the prom... what might be the meaning of this?

Well, next I unpacked the netboot image (rootfs.tgz) but it contains no
kernel. Which kernel works with this package ?


P.S. ( I propose an update in the diskless-howto warning about 
Linux and Solaris rarpd and bootparamd..)


TIA

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Ragga