On Thu, 4 Jan 1996, Mauricio Tavares wrote:

> >b le() -s
> Boot: le(0,0,0) -s
> Using IP Address 128.227.42.13 = 80E32A0D
> Booting from tftp server at 128.227.42.155 = 80E32A9B
> Downloading 13312 bytes from tftp server
> 
> >> NetBSD netboot [$Revision: 1.2 $]
> Requesting Internet address for 8:0:20:0:1D:35
> /
> 
> Why would it want to request an internet address *again* (8:0:20:0:1D:35 
> is the ethernet address of the machine BTW)?  Hmmmm...

Because the PROM doesn't pass the IP address to the boot program, I should
think. I always got stuck at this point, however, and a packet analyser
revealed that I wasn't getting any packets out of the machine at all after
the tftp load finished.

Do you have the latest version of the netboot program? I heard that there
was a new one; perhaps it fixes this problem.

cjs

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