----- Original Message -----
From: "PaulT" <ptice@p2.net>
To: "'Rink Springer'" <rink@springer.cx>
Cc: <port-vax@netbsd.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2000 10:36 PM
Subject: RE: DSSI Support?

Yup, I use GENERIC, and it sees the ethernet device...

--Rink


> Are you using the GENERIC kernel for both machines? Do you see an le0 (or
equiv
> ethernet) device on the 2000 during the initial part of the kernel boot?
From
> my short term playing with netbooting vaxen, it looks like the kernel
refusing
> to see the ethernet on the vax in question will make that vax not even try
to
> mount nfs anything.
>
> Did that make sense?
>
> Thanks
> Paul
>
>
> On Tuesday, July 11, 2000 2:53 PM, Rink Springer [SMTP:rink@springer.cx]
wrote:
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "PaulT" <ptice@p2.net>
> > To: "'Rink Springer'" <rink@springer.cx>
> > Cc: <port-vax@netbsd.org>
> > Sent: Tuesday, July 11, 2000 10:07 PM
> > Subject: RE: DSSI Support?
> >
> > Well, the weird part is that my VAX 4000/300 boots fine, but my MicroVAX
> > 2000 (I think it was) does not... I use bootpd and mopd, and it mounts
from
> > a FreeBSD box.
> >
> > --Rink
> >
> >
> > > I used the mopd from the 1.5-Alpha, then used bootp instead of
bootparam.
> > This
> > > worked fine for the 1.4.2 kernel except, of course, that 1.4.2 doesn't
> > support
> > > the ethernet on the 3300!
> > > This caused my old kernel to refuse to acknowledge that NFS was even
> > available.
> > > Upgrading to the 1.5-GENERIC worked for me. If it is failing to load /
(as
> > > opposed to not TRYING to load / ) you might try mounting your NFS
export
> > local
> > > to your bootserver and make sure that it is -maproot=root
> > >
> > > Oh, and if you do go with the newer mop.boot and use bootp (it's
easier
> > and WAY
> > > faster than bootparam), be aware that you need short paths to your
root.
> > > /usr/vax/root works fine for me, but /usr/export/vaxen/root did not.
> > >
> > > If you need, I can grab my bootptab files this eve and mail em over to
you
> > as
> > > an example.
> > >
> > > Good Luck
> > > Paul
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tuesday, July 11, 2000 2:10 PM, Rink Springer
[SMTP:rink@springer.cx]
> > wrote:
> > > > Snip -(Q RE Vax2000 netboot)
> > > ----------------------------------
> > > I tried hacking NetBSD onto my solar powered calculator.
> > > But the sun is never out when I'm hacking, so I couldn't test it.
> > > ----------------------------------
> > >
>
>