Re: netbooting a dual-G4 powermac ?

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 09:16:21PM -0400, Michael Lorenz wrote:
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> Hello,
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> On Jun 20, 2008, at 13:06, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> >Hi,
> >I've a dual-CPU G4 powermac (openfirmware 3) that I'm trying to boot.
> >I couldn't get it to netboot; it will eventually load ofwboot.xcf  
> >from the
> >tftp server if I specify its name on the OFW boot line, but it'll  
> >never get
> >the kernel from the NFS server (which is the same as the tftp server).
> >tcpdump shows that dhcp is never sending the NFS root path to the  
> >client.
> >I have:
> >group {
> >     filename "ofwboot.xcf";
> >     option root-path "/home/NetBSD/macppc";
> >        host taz.soc {
> >             fixed-address 132.227.103.18;
> >             option host-name "taz";
> >             hardware ethernet 00:03:93:95:07:06;
> >     }
> >}
> >
> >Has anybody been able to netboot a G4 macppc from a NetBSD 3.x host ?
> 
> Yes.
> I remember having to use the next-server option in dhcpd.conf, point  

Could you share the relevant part of dhcpd.conf if you still have it ?

> it at your nfs server. Not sure if that's a bug in Apple's OF or our  
> dhcpd.

I already have it. I also tried to add these options to the host {} section,
but still no go :(

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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