>>>>> "Karl" == Karl Hakimian <hakimian@eecs.wsu.edu> writes:

[about net booting sparc]

Karl> even successfully mounts its root over nfs and loads the kernel,
Karl> tells me about all my devices and seems to startup init.

Karl> This is where things start to go wrong. I appear to get some
Karl> error messages but I can't tell what they are because at this
Karl> point everything that is sent to the console gets cut off after
Karl> the first two characters.

Karl> Is there something special I need to do to use ttya as a
Karl> console? Did I miss something in the docs about setting things
Karl> up? Any suggestions on things to try.

	The problem that I had netbooting my Sun4 came down to
generating appropriate entries in /dev on the server.  SunOS4.1
wouldn't grok the MAKEDEV script.  After I did enough of them by hand,
it booted.

Dave.

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