On Tue, 28 May 2002, Luke Mewburn wrote:

> From: Luke Mewburn <lukem@wasabisystems.com>
> Subject: Re: netbooting a sparc
>
>
> In my personal experience, I've found that NetBSD's rpc.bootparamd is
> a bit too flaky, and its very particular about its config file format
> (with crappy diagnostics when you've given it the wrong config).
> I haven't been bothered to attempt to debug this much more, since I
> generally use dhcp for all my systems (see below).
>
> Recently (in time for NetBSD 1.6), the sparc netboot blocks and the
> sparc GENERIC kernels were changed to try BOOTP/DHCP before
> bootparams (as part of an effort to make netbooting various NetBSD
> architectures consistent).  So, if you're not using bootparams for
> anything else, I'd setup dhcpd and use that instead of bootparams
> for your sparc, because many other things use it.
>
> For what it's worth, the /etc/dhcpd.conf entry for my diskless SS5 is:
>         host icarus {
>                 fixed-address           icarus;
>                 hardware ethernet       08:00:20:00:ba:be;
>                 filename                "icarus/netbsd";
>                 option root-path        "/diskless/icarus";
>         }
>

Many thanks... it helped a bit. Made a simple dhcpd-config. Now I got a
kernel that will actually boot.

/roine