Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2013 13:28:50 -0500 From: Chris Ross <cross+freebsd@distal.com> To: "freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org" <freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org> Subject: Netbooting an old Netra X1 Message-ID: <342EF02B-3FE8-4767-8793-CA2CC9325EDA@distal.com>
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I've been talking about my Netra X1 recently. And, I've gotten it =
netbooting between prior experience with NetBSD/sparc64 and help from =
others.
However, I find that it doesn't seem to bring the ethernet interface =
online to be able to NFS-mount root. It successfully tftp loads the =
loader, then the loader can tftp all of the other pieces it needs =
(including kernel, and anything I ask to be loaded from loader.conf). =
But, after the kernel starts, I don't see anything else on the network =
from that host's MAC address. At least, I'm pretty sure. Neither the =
DHCP server, nor the tftp and NFS server see any packets from it.
Is there some step I missed to tell the kernel to please use dc0 as =
the network interface to NFS mount through? And/or to use DHCP to get =
an address for it?
My netboot is currently ending with:
Trying to mount root from =
nfs:206.138.151.36:/data/nfs-exports/sparc64-freebsd9=20
[]...
mountroot: waiting for device =
206.138.151.36:/data/nfs-exports/sparc64-freebsd9=20
...
Mounting from nfs:206.138.151.36:/data/nfs-exports/sparc64-freebsd9 =
failed with=20
error 19.
(As a side note, I really do think I got it as far as single user once =
yesterday afternoon, but wasn't able to repeat it last night, with what =
I believe was the same configuration. This makes me suspect there might =
be something suspect in the system, rather than my process, but I'm =
hoping it's just my process that's wrong.)
Thanks.
- Chris
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