Subject: Trouble Netbooting NetBSD/VAX
To: None <port-vax@netbsd.org>
From: Sprag Johnson <bdwheele@indiana.edu>
List: port-vax
Date: 02/18/1999 15:20:24
Hello!

I have a uVAX II with a DELQA and I'm using the latest snapshot I could
find (kernel date was 1998-12-19).  I can't seem to get the kernel to 
nfs mount my root disk.  It is using the wrong netmask when doing broadcasts,
which might be part of the problem:

11:57:31.000000 heavy.educ.indiana.edu.1023 > 129.79.255.255.sunrpc: udp 96
11:57:32.000000 heavy.educ.indiana.edu.1023 > 129.79.255.255.sunrpc: udp 96
11:57:34.000000 heavy.educ.indiana.edu.1023 > 129.79.255.255.sunrpc: udp 96
11:57:37.000000 heavy.educ.indiana.edu.1023 > 129.79.255.255.sunrpc: udp 96
11:57:41.000000 heavy.educ.indiana.edu.1023 > 129.79.255.255.sunrpc: udp 96
11:57:46.000000 heavy.educ.indiana.edu.1023 > 129.79.255.255.sunrpc: udp 96
11:57:51.000000 heavy.educ.indiana.edu.1023 > 129.79.255.255.sunrpc: udp 96
11:57:56.000000 heavy.educ.indiana.edu.1023 > 129.79.255.255.sunrpc: udp 96  

instead of using 129.79.219.255.

I'm getting an nfs_mount timeout before it finally dies.

Any thoughts?

Another question:  Is it possible to boot from a TK50/70 and use nfs as
the root?  I don't want to mess up my VMS disk.

Brian Wheeler
bdwheele@indiana.edu