Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 19:37:00 +0200 (CEST) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: tg@ihf.rwth-aachen.de (Thomas Gellekum) Cc: cgd@netbsd.org, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DEC3000/400 SRM bootp overview Message-ID: <199910121737.TAA55060@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <kqr9j1rt5u.fsf@zabagek.ihf.rwth-aachen.de> from Thomas Gellekum at "Oct 12, 1999 8:26:37 am"
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As Thomas Gellekum wrote ... > cgd@netbsd.org (Chris G. Demetriou) writes: > > > Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> writes: > > > I just noticed that SRM 6.0 had a timeout problem when booting > > > from my Aspen Alpine (EB64+) whereas the same SRM 6.0 worked OK > > > booting from my K6-2 box. This leads me to the suspicion that there > > > is something *very* timing critical (or something close to that) on > > > the later SRM revs. My above observation was not a valid one it seems. At least not universal. The Sandpiper now boots via bootp from the Alpine without problem, apart from the wellknown: Boot device name was: "BOOTP 0 7 0 0 0 2 CORE-IO" Your firmware may be too old to network-boot NetBSD/Alpha, or you might have to hard-code an ethernet address into your network boot block with setnetbootinfo(8). > > the symptom that i noticed when looking into it was that using tcpdump > > to watch the packets that were coming out of the alpha would show > > packets with bad checksums. (I forget whether they were the bootp or > > tftp requests, or whether the bad checksums were the IP or UDP > > checksums... It's been a few years... 8-) > > Same thing here with two 3000/300s. The TFTP packet contains '\0' at > the TOS and the first bytes of the file name fields. The firmware rev > is 6.5. Where can I get older/working versions? I have the f/w images, that is not the problem. How would you get them onto the machine is the question. I mean, the machines support upgrading firmware via bootp. Sort of chicken and egg. MOP netbooting should also work for f/w updates I think. Do you have a host capable of MOP serving maybe? W/ -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands - Powered by FreeBSD - |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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