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