Subject: Re: Netbooting an Ultra10 from FreeBSD
To: Andrey Petrov <and@genesyslab.com>
From: danny webster <dwebster@onetel.net.uk>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 11/17/2001 15:42:22
hi there.

all is intact; the tftpboot and rarpd parts work fine.

I think bootparamd is broke - Iwill try bootpd, as suggested by Paul Khavkine.

Cheers


On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 02:06:28PM -0800, Andrey Petrov wrote:
> tcpdump and rarpd -d are usually helpful to localize a problem.
> I'd also check /etc/ethers which should have an entry for your client host.
> 
> Regards,
> 	Andrey
> 
> On Fri, Nov 16, 2001 at 12:50:24PM +0000, danny webster wrote:
> > 
> > Hi there!
> > 
> > I think my problem is to do with NFS, but i'm sure it's probably elsewhere, too. :)
> > 
> > 
> > the FreeBSD server is: ragnarok / 10.233.40.232
> > the NetBSD ultra10 is: imp	/ 10.233.40.236
> > 
> > The binary extracts are in:
> > 
> > /export/root/{bin, etc, netbsd, usr, lib}	(etc etc ...)
> > 
> > /tftpboot is working fine, as it grabs ofwboot.net when I 'boot net netbsd'
> > but the I get to the following error:
> > 
> > No response for RARP request
> > bootp: no reply 
> > 
> > (and then it tries find all the netbsd.* kernels which it cannot.)
> > 
> > FreeBSD side, I have:
> > 
> > bootparamd -d
> > 
> > /etc/bootparams:
> > 
> > imp root=imp:/export/root swap=imp:/export/swap
> > 
> > 
> > rarpd -a
> > 
> > mountd -2dlnr 	(the logging shows that the export is loaded ok)
> > 
> > nfsd -h 10.233.40.232 -n 4
> > 
> > /etc/exports:
> > 
> > /export -alldirs -maproot=root  imp
> > 
> > 
> > Could you shed some light on this for me please?
> > 
> > many thanks!
> > 
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