Subject: Re: port-amd64/33079: 3.0 and -current can't netboot
To: Jan Schaumann <jschauma@netmeister.org>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 03/16/2006 09:03:12
On Mar 15,  8:59pm, jschauma@netmeister.org (Jan Schaumann) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: port-amd64/33079: 3.0 and -current can't netboot

|  =20
| >  | 	I have an amd64 machine that will work just dandy when running
| >  | 	a 2.1 kernel.  The machine is diskless and netboots, without
| >  | 	any problems.
| >  |=20
| >  | 	A 3.0 or a -current kernel will not netboot.  They will properly
| >  | 	pxeboot and start loading the kernel, but when the kernel tries
| >  | 	to get a dhcp lease, it will time out.
| >  |=20
| >  | 	The problem is described in
| >  |=20
| >  | 	http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-amd64/2006/02/07/0001.html
| >  | 	http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-amd64/2006/02/23/0003.html
| >  |=20
| >  | 	Note: the problem also exists on port-i386.
| >  |=20
| >  | 	The network interface in question is a bge (onboard).
| >  |=20
| >  | 	Below is the dmesg of the 2.1 kernel:
| > =20
| >  tcpdump?
| 
| A tcpdump taken on the dhcpd server is available at
| http://www.cs.stevens.edu/~jschauma/netbsd/tcpdump
| 

Seems like the dhcp server is not setup properly. Maybe it is not sending
out enough information? What do you have in your dhcpd.conf?

christos