Subject: Re: More thoughts on netboot
To: None <raub@kushana.aero.ufl.edu>
From: Gordon W. Ross <gwr@mc.com>
List: port-sun3
Date: 01/07/1996 12:26:08
> From: raub@kushana.aero.ufl.edu (Mauricio Tavares)
> Date: Sat, 6 Jan 1996 12:50:10 -0500 (EST)
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> 	In my ongoing quest to install netbsd in the 3/50, I think I
> stumbled into something quite interesting:
[...]
> 	Now, here is the question of the day:  why does SunOS netboot
> work and netbsd's does not? 

Probably some bug in the NetBSD/sun3 netboot implementation.
The netboot program works on many machines, but may have a
problem related to the PROM revision.  (I'm guessing.)

What PROM revision does your Sun3/50 say at power-on?

Gordon