Ok, here's the deal.  For the past 2 days I've been trying to netboot my
SparcStation4 diskless station off my P100 Slackware 7 Linux box.  I've
gone through the Diskless howto religiously, scoured backissues of this
list, and pretty much pulled my hair out trying to make it work :-)

The sparc loads the bootloader (i've tried both Net and OpenBSD
bootloaders).  The following output is produced:

boot: client IP address: 198.166.5.45
recvrpc: reject, astat=1, errno=1
bootparamd: 'whoami' call failed

I've got rpc.bootparamd running on the linux box, and /etc/bootparamd has
the following contents:

imb545.imb.nrc.ca root=tanager:/export/client/root \
                swap=tanager:/export/client/swap

All the filesystems in /export/client are correct, I believe.  There's a
copy of the kernel in /export/client/root and /tftpboot, just to be sure.
tftpd is enabled in inetd, nfsd and mountd are both running happily.  I
can nfs mount the shares from my other systems, so everything is hopping
along nicely.  from what I've gathered from the old posts to this group,
the linux bootparamd is somewhat less than perfect, but anyone who can
point me in the right direction so i can get this thing loaded with an OS
would be my hero :-)

--Sean