Re: 10.1 netboot on non-turbo mono slab failing at NFS

[Brandon Applegate <vom513%gmail.com@localhost>]

I figured out my mistake.  I was doing:

btp

instead of:

btp()netbsd

I can boot the kernel now.  On to the next speed bump :). Sorry for
the noise (and I'll probably be back :) )

On Thu, Feb 6, 2025 at 12:30 PM vom513 <vom513%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
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> Hello all,
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> Disclaimer: I am very much a NeXT noob.  Most of my NetBSD activity is on sparc(32).
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> I have my NS slab booting, bootp’ing, tftping the boot loader, but it fails when getting to NFS:
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> NeXT>btp
> boot tp(8,0,8)
> Requesting BOOTP information. [0K]
> Booting /boot from netbsd-10-1.internal.burn.net
>     • NetBSD/next68k BOOT [1.8 (Mon Dec 16 13:88:11 UTC 28.
>     • › type 1, non-turbo
> read header failed: Input/output error load of en( ):
> Input/output error
> boot:
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> My netboot server is an amd64 NetBSD VM.  It seems that my setup to this point is working, and it seems that NFS is working on the server side correctly:
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> (I ran the relevant NFS daemons in debug/foreground mode)
>
> Getting mount list.
> Here we go.
>
> got mount request from 192.168.64.42
> -> rpcpath: /export/client/root/
> -> dirpath: /export/client/root
> Mount successful.
>
> I fear I have something wrong in that directory on the netboot server.  I untarred all of the sets tgz’s there.  I made the swap file.  I made the client rc.conf, hosts etc.  I basically followed:
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> https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-10.1/next68k/INSTALL.html
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> Here is my NFS root directory I’m trying to serve up:
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> netbsd-10-1# pwd
> /export/client/root
>
> netbsd-10-1# ls -la
> total 3192
> drwxr-xr-x  18 root  wheel      512 Feb  6 10:18 .
> drwxr-xr-x   5 root  wheel      512 Feb  6 10:08 ..
> -rw-r--r--   2 root  wheel     1186 Dec 16 08:08 .cshrc
> -rw-r--r--   2 root  wheel      864 Dec 16 08:08 .profile
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel      512 Dec 16 08:08 altroot
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel     1024 Dec 16 08:08 bin
> drwxr-xr-x   9 root  wheel    14336 Feb  6 10:19 dev
> drwxr-xr-x  30 root  wheel     2048 Feb  6 10:20 etc
> drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel     2048 Dec 16 08:08 lib
> drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel      512 Dec 16 08:08 libdata
> drwxr-xr-x   5 root  wheel      512 Dec 16 08:08 libexec
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel      512 Dec 16 08:08 mnt
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root  wheel  3180888 Dec 16 08:08 netbsd
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel     3072 Feb  6 10:18 rescue
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel      512 Feb  6 10:18 root
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel     3072 Dec 16 08:08 sbin
> drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel      512 Feb  6 10:18 stand
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel      512 Feb  6 10:10 swap
> drwxrwxrwt   2 root  wheel      512 Dec 16 08:08 tmp
> drwxr-xr-x  13 root  wheel      512 Feb  6 10:18 usr
> drwxr-xr-x  24 root  wheel      512 Dec 16 08:08 var
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> What can I look at next (no pun intended) ?  Thanks.
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