Re: Failing to netboot

[Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>]

>> Tftp is sitting on a raspberry pi running Debian.  Can try some
>> other options.  The contents are actually being NFS mounted from a
>> NAS, and try moving the files locally too.

> That NAS presumably runs _some_ version of Linux, which leaves
> another trap: Does the NAS support NFSv2 and is it enabled?  I don't
> have experience with port-sparc netbooting, but [...]

Is that relevant?  It sounds to me as though the NFS mount mentioned is
on the pi, backing the TFTP daemon, not anything the machine being
booted interacts with.

> the port-sparc64 loader only supports NFSv2, which these days tends
> to be turned off by default on Linux and is generally not longer
> tested by Linux distributions (IIRC Redhat went all way to "not
> officially supported anymore").

I guess Linux is no longer suitable as a netboot host, then....

I did once build an NFS server entirely in userland.  Something like
that may become useful, if more of the world goes that way.

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