Subject: Re: net booting an IPC
To: port-sparc <port-sparc@netbsd.org>
From: Jens Georg <jegeorg@stud.uni-hannover.de>
List: port-sparc
Date: 06/28/2003 17:25:03
Gerald Richter:
> What versions/distros hosting? What NBSD version booting? I've been
> trying against win32 and linux based for years and it barfs when the
> kernel goes to mount root. I've tried it against identical setups on
> half a dozen linux distros with the same results, well, I didn't verify
> what nfsd and version, but the config files were as specified in the
> netboot howto. Didn't get it to work until I set up NetBSD on a spare
> x86 machine and used that to host the NFS... I would host it off my
> running sparc, but it's got a smallish hard drive with about 5mb left on
> it. I've repeated testing with the newer kernels and obtained the same
> results. Of course, I could just have a collection of the worst software
> compatability issues on the planet too.. ;)
Plain debian testing, worked also on previous testing which is now
stable (aka woody)
NetBSD is last of 1.5.x and 1.6.0/.1
I'll give you my config files when i'm back home