The following reply was made to PR port-amd64/33079; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: christos@zoulas.com (Christos Zoulas)
To: Jan Schaumann <jschauma@netmeister.org>, gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc: port-amd64-maintainer@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,
	netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: port-amd64/33079: 3.0 and -current can't netboot
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 09:03:12 -0500

 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