Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 22:19:15 -0800 (PST) From: E Lakin <pharaoh@u.washington.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: netbooting a SLC off a FreeBSD box Message-ID: <Pine.A32.3.95.970303215249.179017B-100000@goodall.u.washington.edu>
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As the subject indicates, i'm trying to get a Sparcstation SLC to do a network boot (of NetBSD/sparc) from my FreeBSD machine. I've got the two machines talking, but after the SLC gets the initial boot program & IP/name, it just sits there. To (hopefully) make things simpler, the SLC is Anubis, and the FreeBSD server is Osiris. So far, Anubis does a RARP request for it's name, which Osiris' rarpd provides. Then, anubis requests a boot program via tftp from Osiris (0A000005.SUN4C), and proceeds to download it. Anubis again asks for it's name via RARP, and then (i think) starts talking to Osiris' bootparamd. This is where things get stuck. I think that either bootparamd is giving different info than Anubis expects, or Anubis is trying to do an NFS mount from the info the bootparam provided, and NFS isn't set up correctly on Osiris (mountd/nfsd are running, but iv've never set up nfs) I have the NetBSD/Sparc filesystem residing in /usr/local/boot/sparc, the initial boot code in /tftpboot, and am running rarpd, bootparamd, nfsd, and mountd at startup. Hopefully, with some info below, the problem will be clear to someone! (below: SLC messages, bootparamd log, tcpdump, /etc/bootparams, etc/exports) Here's the text displayed on the SLC... ok boot net netbsd -s b200 >> NetBSD BOOT [$Revision: 1.4 $] boot: client IP address: 10.0.0.5 boot: client name: anubis Here's the error messages from bootparamd (the only other thing logged is a succesful tftp transfer)... /var/log/messages:Mar 3 19:48:27 osiris bootparamd: whoami got question for 10.0.0.5 /var/log/messages:Mar 3 19:48:27 osiris bootparamd: This is host anubis.purgatory.net /var/log/messages:Mar 3 19:48:27 osiris bootparamd: Returning anubis 10.0.0.1 /var/log/messages:Mar 3 19:48:28 osiris bootparamd: getfile got question for "anubis" and file "root" /var/log/messages:Mar 3 19:48:28 osiris bootparamd: getfile failed for anubis here's a tcpdump of the conversation...(tcpdump -i ep0 -t -N) rarp who-is anubis.purgatory.net tell anubis.purgatory.net rarp reply anubis.purgatory.net at anubis anubis.10977 > osiris.tftp: 23 RRQ "0A000005.SUN4C" osiris.1028 > anubis.10977: udp 516 anubis.10977 > osiris.1028: udp 4 osiris.1028 > anubis.10977: udp 516 anubis.10977 > osiris.1028: udp 4 ... osiris.1028 > anubis.10977: udp 236 anubis.10977 > osiris.1028: udp 4 rarp who-is anubis.purgatory.net tell anubis.purgatory.net rarp reply anubis.purgatory.net at anubis anubis.1023 > 255.255.255.255.sunrpc: udp 96 osiris.sunrpc > anubis.1023: udp 68 arp who-has osiris tell anubis arp reply osiris is-at osiris.purgatory.net anubis.1022 > osiris.756: udp 80 and here's my /etc/bootparams file... anubis root=/usr/local/boot/sparc/ \ swap=/usr/local/boot/swap/ and my exports file... /usr/local/boot/sparc anubis.purgatory.net /usr/local/boot/swap if any other info is necessary, i'll send it up. --eric lakin
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