Subject: Re: 3/60 netboot/install problem
To: Kevin P. Neal <kpneal@pobox.com>
From: Jeffrey Dunitz <orpheus@lemieux.hockey.net>
List: port-sun3
Date: 05/22/2000 19:27:20
Vers Mon, May 22, 2000 at 11:13:12AM -0400, Kevin P. Neal disait quelque chose comme:
> On Sun, May 21, 2000 at 11:46:22PM -0500, Jeffrey Dunitz wrote:
> > I'm not a newbie to NetBSD, but I've never tried it on a sun3 before.
> > I've had this 3/60 sitting here for a long time and decided to fire it up.
> 
> > I've tried linking C02AACC9 to every one of those boot files in /tftpboot, 
> > and none of them really do anything. 
> 
> I disagree, it looks like it tftp's the boot program just fine.

Yeah, but it wasn't doing anything after that.
 
I got it to work, finally, though I'm not too sure what I did.
 
I ended up linking the mac-address file to the plain old netbsd kernel
rather than the ramdisk kernel. Then, it just started working. 
I don't know what I did other than that. 

Next, I'm going to try to make sure I don't have any extraneous 
stuff in my config files. I'm using dhcp, but I also have bootpd
enabled in /etc/inetd.conf on the bootserver/gateway. I shouldn't 
need both.


>   
> Well, I don't have the magic decoder ring so I'll hazard a guess:
> 
> Hmmm. What kind of memory do you have installed in this machine? It 
> takes 1 meg simms, true parity, 9 chip, 100? ns or better. You cannot
> use 3 chip simms, odd things will probably happen (they work fine for
> some people, but those people are rare).
> 
> When I tried 3 chip SIMMs in my 3/60 my SCSI system failed to operate.
> 
> Weird.
> 
> Also, how is the board jumpered? Is it possible it is jumpered to have
> more memory than the board actually has installed?
> -- 
> Kevin P. Neal                                http://www.pobox.com/~kpn/
> 
> "You know, I think I can hear the machine screaming from here...  \
> 'help me! hellpp meeee!'"  - Heather Flanagan, 14:52:23 Wed Jun 10 1998

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