kannan@magazine.usask.ca writes:
> 
> On Tue, 11 May 1999, Greg Oster wrote:
>
> > If you run tcpdump on the Linux box, can you see the requests coming from
> > the hp300 going out on the wire? 
> 
> Yes, I ran tcpdump during the bootup.  I even ran it right after SYS_UBOOT
> but before the time ran out on the prompt - nothing is sent over the wire
> at all.  Tcpdump picks up the SYS_UBOOT stuff, but nothing after that

Hmm...  Have you had tcpdump running for the entire boot process (i.e. so that 
you don't miss anything)?  

IIRC, you don't get the error message:

No response for RARP request
le(0,0,0,0): Unknown error: code 60
boot: Unknown error: code 60

right?  Hmm... 

> Just for personal enlightenment, what is the sequence for netboot on the
> hp?  Is it: SYS_UBOOT, rarp, bootparams, etc.. ?

Yup.  The following does a good job of explaining it:

http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/network/netboot/intro.hp300.html

Later...

Greg Oster