I had this same problem (searching for ip even though it already had it) 
on my 3/60... as i type, i'm making the miniroot, netboot, and netbsd-rd 
that worked for me available at 
ftp://ltost04.erols.com/pub/NetBSD/netboot/ ...you can get them there or 
somewhere else (keep in mind, this is a 28.8 link.. miniroot.gz is rather 
large...)


ltost@erols.com
http://www.pobox.com/~ltost


On Thu, 23 May 1996, martin muggli wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> 	I have a linux machine set up to do a netboot and install of 
> netbsd for a sun3/50 w/ ROM Rev 2.6.  A few days ago I d/l a 15k version 
> of netboot from this site.  When booting this version the sun found its 
> address, tftp'ed the 15k netboot, and then started searching for it's 
> IP.  Now there is a 13k version of netboot which I just tried.  This 
> version drops into the ROM monitor and reports "Exception 2C at 
> 002400E6".  I know the sun and my linux setup are Okay because I 
> regualarly use seth robertson's Xkernel release.  It seems to be an 
> incompatibility between sun3/50 and the netboot program or something 
> along those lines.  Just for kicks I tried the tapeboot program which 
> excited to ROM monitor with exactly the same message.  Both times the 
> sun was col booted.
>