Hello again,

With help from Dean Linford, I was able to netboot my Sparc IPC from
my Sparc IPX running NetBSD 1.4.1. I should have mentioned the 1.4.1
part in my previous note for as Dean pointed out, the older versions
of dhcpd do not support the "option root-path" config setting. So,
after I compiled the current dhcpd source, the NFS mount of the miniroot
worked the first time...

It may be worth a note in the Sparc netboot installation notes.

--tom


At 12:33 PM 1/23/2005 -0600, Tom Uban wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I'm attempting to netboot 2.0 onto an IPC and when it gets to the
>point of trying to NFS mount the miniroot, I get the following EACCES
>error on the IPC console:
>
>>ok boot le()netbsd
>>Booting from: le(0,0,0)netbsd
>>13a00 >> NetBSD/sparc Secondary Boot, Revision 1.14
>> >> (builds@build, Thu Dec  2 01:42:46 UTC 2004)
>>Booting netbsd
>>Trying BOOTP protocol... net_open: client addr: 192.168.0.7
>>net_open: subnet mask: 255.255.255.0
>>net_open: net gateway: 192.168.0.254
>>net_open: server addr: 192.168.0.254
>>ip address: 192.168.0.7, hostname: netbsd, netmask: 255.255.255.0, 
>>gateway: 192.
>>168.0.254
>>root addr=192.168.0.254 path=
>>Can't open NFS network connection on `le(0,0,0)netbsd'
>>Cannot load netbsd: error=13
>>
>>device[le(0,0,0)netbsd] ("halt" to halt):
>
>I've setup the /etc/exports as follows:
>
>>/export/netbsd/root -maproot=root netbsd.ubanproductions.com
>
>And mountd is running and showmount -e displays:
>
>>/export/netbsd/root                netbsd
>
>The nfs daemons are running as well.
>
>Is the problem that the path= does not have any path? I have
>the /etc/dhcpd.conf setup with this:
>
>>         option root-path       "/export/netbsd/root";
>
>And the /export/netbsd/root miniroot exists and contains the
>extracted miniroot.
>
>If I run mountd in debug mode (-d) there isn't any useful
>debug output when the client attempts the NFS mount, but I'm
>not sure that there would be.
>
>Any help would be appreciated.
>
>--tnx
>--tom
>
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