Netbooting a blue and white G3

[Andy Ruhl <acruhl%gmail.com@localhost>]

Hello all,

I'm trying to run a blue and white G3 machine diskless to see how
Netbsd works on it.

I've got fairly extensive experience with netbooting and running
diskless, enough to know that minor details can really cause problems.

I'm following the diskless docs as well as this one:
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-5.0.1/macppc/INSTALL.html

It seems as if the bootloader is being booted OK, but once it's loaded
it can't find the kernel.

This is what I used at the firmware prompt to get the bootloader loaded:

0 > boot enet:,ofwboot.xcf

This seems to work.

This is what I get after the bootloader is loaded via tftp:

>> NetBSD/macppc OpenFirmware Boot, Revision 1.11
>> (builds%b7.netbsd.org@localhost, Wed Jul 29 21:44:51 UTC 2009)

CLIENT: XXXXXXXXXXXX 192.168.1.3
SERVER: XXXXXXXXXXXX 192.168.1.254 Using IP address: 192.168.1.3
root addr=192.168.1.254 path=/home/sylvester/root
open /netbsd: Unknown error: code 60

CLIENT: XXXXXXXXXXXX 192.168.1.3
SERVER: XXXXXXXXXXXX 192.168.1.254 Using IP address: 192.168.1.3
root addr=192.168.1.254 path=/home/sylvester/root
open /netbsd.gz: Unknown error: code 60

CLIENT: XXXXXXXXXXXX 192.168.1.3
SERVER: XXXXXXXXXXXX 192.168.1.254 Using IP address: 192.168.1.3
root addr=192.168.1.254 path=/home/sylvester/root
open /netbsd.macppc: Unknown error: code 60

There is actually a file called /home/sylvester/root/netbsd on the NFS
server, and it is readable.

The /var/log/messages file does show that DHCP activity is coming from
this client machine, but it shows no errors.

I've been fiddling with the dhcpd.conf since it seems like the problem
is in there.

I might also try booting back into OS X to see if I can mount the NFS
server to make sure that works.

Can anyone tell me what "Unknown error: code 60" means? I'm trying to
find out where this might be coming from in the source, but I'm not
very experienced with this.

Thanks,
Andy