Subject: Re: Netbooting 1.5.1_BETA2 on an Ultra2
To: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>
From: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 06/17/2001 10:16:29
> I've succeeded in netbooting on an Ultra2, using a RH 6.2 system
> w/ arp/rarp + tftp + bootparams + nfs.
...
> In /var/log/messages:
> Jun 15 17:30:52 meco08 kernel: svc: unknown version (3) 

You should not use broken NFS servers (that claim support for NFS v3 in the
mount RPC but the can not handle the requests). This is a known problem
with Linux.

I could netboot from an i386 running (of course) NetBSD without any problems.


Martin