Re: Netbooting a sparc64 (netbsd-6)

[Chris Ross <cross+netbsd%distal.com@localhost>]

On 02/27/2012 04:08 AM, Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 08:58:16PM -0500, Chris Ross wrote:
> > root on bge0
> I think we have seen firmware versions that break the bge interface they
> use to download ofwboot/kernel so it would not work properly afterwards.
> Do you have the latest firmware version for your machine installed?
>
> Check on the dhcp server (or nfs server) with tcpdump if it gets any packets
> after the kernel has taken over...

  Thanks.  I'll check that first, as I believe it is not the most 
up-to-date OBP on the machine.  And, I'm pretty sure the DHCP server 
didn't see any packets, at least not enough of a packet for it to log 
seeing a request, so.

  Thanks for the pointer.

                                   - Chris