On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 12:47:05AM -0700, John Nemeth wrote:
> On Oct 8,  5:32pm, Andrey Petrov wrote:
> } On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 07:44:51PM -0700, John Nemeth wrote:
> } >      Going back to the Ultra 2, I see it downloading the last part of
> } > ofwboot.net and acknowledging it.  Then nothing.  There are no more
> } > packets sent, nothing printed on the screen, and I can't do Stop-A.
> } > Presumably this is point where it should start to execute ofwboot.net,
> } > but instead it is locking up hard.  I have a packet dump if it is
> } > needed (located at http://victoria.tc.ca/~jnemeth/u2-netboot-dump ).
> } > ofwboot.net is from
> } > ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-2.0.2/sparc64/installation/netboot/ofwboot.net.
> } > Does anybody have any ideas?  Does anybody have a binary of the current
> } > version of ofwboot.net handy, so I can just grab the one file?
> } 
> } At some point ofwboot had been changed to use dhcp first and then bootparamd,
> } so if you don't have dhcpd configured and running then you'll see some delay
> } [around a minute] and then you have to see bootparam used and kernel loading.
> } I downloaded and tried that ofwboot.net you mantioned and it works.
> 
>      I redownloaded ofwboot.net just in case...
> 
> } Here's a log
> } 
> } [snip]
> 
>      My system only shows:
> 
> {0} ok boot net
> Boot device: /sbus/SUNW,hme@e,8c00000  File and args: 
> 13000
> 
> What type of system do you have and what is its configuration?
> 

Ultra2 booting from i386.

I also have in my rc.conf

rpcbind=YES
mountd=YES
nfs_client=YES
nfs_server=YES

rarpd=YES
bootparamd=YES


--Andrey