Subject: strange inability to boot diskless
To: None <port-hp300@netbsd.org>
From: Paul <set@pobox.com>
List: port-hp300
Date: 08/27/1999 21:34:24
Dear Helpful People;
I upgraded to netbsd1.4 from 1.1 not too long ago. I have 2 340's, one
of which is hooked up to a scsi disk, and the other, which I have been
netbooting off and on for years.
I recently tried to netboot it though after upgrading, and failed.
Everything seems to work beautifully; rbootd sends over SYS_UBOOT,
that asks rarpd who it is, and then it gets all the correct information
about its server/root from bootparamd. Then it sucks over the kernel via nfs.
As soon as the kernel is loaded, however, the machine just hangs. Ive
built my own kernel from DISKLESS, and tried the diskless kernel from
the ftp site, and they both hang. tcpdump reveals absolutely no network
traffic from the diskless client after it appears to hang.
If I try and boot using the GENERIC kernel, it runs further after loading,
then prompts for a root, dump, and filesystem (I give it le0, none, and
nfs) Then it uses rarp to find out who it is, then claims its using
bootparam, but sends these packets until it times out:
# squidclock is the diskless client
tcpdump host squidclock
21:28:41.973068 rarp reply squidclock.home.org at squidclock.home.org
21:28:42.037308 arp who-has squidclock.home.org tell squidclock.home.org
21:28:42.042320 squidclock.home.org.1023 > 192.168.2.255.sunrpc: udp 96
21:28:43.035204 squidclock.home.org.1023 > 192.168.2.255.sunrpc: udp 96
21:28:45.035160 squidclock.home.org.1023 > 192.168.2.255.sunrpc: udp 96
What is it doing?
[febrile.home.org] /home/export/squidclock/root (Root): rpcinfo -p
program vers proto port
100000 2 tcp 111 portmapper
100000 2 udp 111 portmapper
100003 2 udp 2049 nfs
100003 3 udp 2049 nfs
100003 2 tcp 2049 nfs
100003 3 tcp 2049 nfs
100005 1 udp 930 mountd
100005 3 udp 930 mountd
100005 1 tcp 1018 mountd
100005 3 tcp 1018 mountd
100026 1 udp 917 bootparam
Im stumped. Can anyone suggest anything?
Thankful for any help;
Paul
set@pobox.com