Subject: Re: One problem down (Was: Re: Tape loading problems)
To: Curt Sampson <curt@portal.ca>
From: Mauricio Tavares <raub@kushana.aero.ufl.edu>
List: port-sun3
Date: 01/05/1996 11:49:00
> > >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
> > /
> >

While shopping for shruberries, Curt Sampson pondered:
> 
> 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.
> 

While shopping for shruberries, Gordon W. Ross pondered:
>
> The PROM driver insists on doing RARP each time you open it.
> You might need to get the more recent version of netboot.
>
> Please try the new one from here:
>   ftp.netbsd.org: /ftp/pub/NetBSD/arch/sun3/*
>
> It should say "Revision 1.2c"
>
	I downloaded the netboot 1.2c and tried it.  The only difference 
is that now it says [$Revision: 1.2c $] instead of [$Revision: 1.2 $].  
The problem itself still exists. =(

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