kannan@magazine.usask.ca writes:
> I'm running into extreme furstrations trying to set up an HP9000/300
> machine I bought. 

:-(

> I am trying to netboot it from a linux box.
> 
> After much twiddling and following the remote-boot hp300 howto, I did
> everything that is needed of me, as far as the howto goes.
> 
> The hp300 boots, and rbootd sees the boot requests, and sends over
> SYS_UBOOT.  At this point, the hp box goes to a prompt. 

What model of hp300 do you have?  

> It waits a few
> seconds and then prints a newline, and then does nothing.  At the prompt,
> I can type "reset" and the machine will start over from the beginning,
> but I cant do much more.
> 
> According to the howto - after SYS_UBOOT, the hp box is supposed to send
> out an rarp request for it's ip.  I have rarp configured on my host box,
> and nothing happens. 

If you run tcpdump on the Linux box, can you see the requests coming from
the hp300 going out on the wire? 

> Even if the hp300 is not able to get an IP address
> through rarp, it's supossed to print an error message, but it does
> nothing, just sits there.
> 
> I am at the end of my wits about this problem.
> 
> Some info about the setup:
> 	the network is 1 486, 2 386, and 1 hp300, all running Linux except
> for the hp300.  It's connected by coaxial.  The 486 is the bootp and rarp
> and nfs server.
> 	I really want to see this hp beast up and running, any help would
> be greatly appreciated.

I've done a bunch of netbooting of hp300 boxes (most recently as a few days 
ago), but never using a Linux box as the server...  

Later...

Greg Oster