Subject: Re: Problem booting Indy
To: None <port-sgimips@netbsd.org>
From: Jeff Utter <funk@softhome.net>
List: port-sgimips
Date: 01/13/2002 11:25:26
oh, ok.. does this only work on an INDY, because i was hopeing for
something that would work on an o2, i read that there was minimal o2
support on the netbsd webpage (i think) and was hopeing i could play w/
it on my o2.
and yeah, myrnet.com works now.. didn't earlier *shrugs*
On Sun, 2002-01-13 at 11:08, Scott G. Akmentins-Taylor wrote:
> Hi Jeff,
>
> If you're having a problem with mrynet.com accessibility, please
> let me know. There have been no outages I am aware of.
>
> Scott Barron is most likely referring to a snapshot area I have
> for NetBSD/sgimips-INDY I make available:
>
> /pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.5.2-sgimips/INDY/
> located at ftp.mrynet.com
>
> There are two snapshots there:
> 20011218 Tested
> 20011222 Tested, but not much exposure
>
> -scott
>
> --
> Scott G. Akmentins-Taylor InterNet: staylor@mrynet.com
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> (Skots Gregorijs Akmentins-Teilors -- just call me "Skots")
> ----- Labak miris neka sarkans -----
>
> > Hey, can you give me a link to where you found this information?
> > mrynet.com seems to be down, and i'd like to read it, thanks.
> >
> > On Sun, 2002-01-13 at 02:58, Scott Barron wrote:
> > > On Sun, Jan 13, 2002 at 01:19:28AM -0500, Scott Barron wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > I'm having a small problem getting an Indy booted and was wondering if
> > > > anyone could help me out. Here's what I've got: I serial console into
> > > > the Indy and can get it to pull the kernel via tftp and boot that. I
> > > > have dhcpd answer the bootp request, which it does as shown by syslog.
> > > > When the kernel tries to mount / via NFS, however, it times out. When I
> > > > watch the traffic with tcpdump I can see the initial bootp request and
> > > > then the tftp transfer of the kernel but after that I never see dhcp or
> > > > NFS traffic on the wire. My NFS is set up correctly as I have a VAX
> > > > mounting its / from this machine via NFS, so I've ruled that out. I
> > > > can't figure out why I wouldn't be seeing the dhcp or NFS traffic after
> > > > the kernel boots. Anyone got any ideas about this? I have dhcpd serve
> > > > up the same IP address as I set in the PROM on the Indy and it seems to
> > > > work OK to tftp the kernel, so I'm at a loss. Thanks for any help.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > -Scott
> > >
> > > Nevermind, problem solved! I found a link to the stuff on mrynet.com
> > > and managed to get an ftp install going on the Indy. All is well ...
> > > for now.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > -Scott
>