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From: "H. Jared Agnew" <jagnew@csugrad.cs.vt.edu>
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Subject: bootparamd???
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  I am having a bit of trouble getting diskless workstations to boot
of of my FreeBSD box.  This is the error that is currently tying me up.

Oct  7 22:58:32 jagnew bootparamd: getfile got question for "obi-wan" and file "root" 
Oct  7 22:58:32 jagnew bootparamd: getfile failed for obi-wan 

now, I think I have setup all my config files correctly but just to make sure, 
I will post em.

/etc/bootparams
obi-wan   root=/usr/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.2\
          swap=/usr/NetBSD/swap/swap.10

/etc/bootptab
obi-wan:\
          :bf=/kernel:\
          :dn=swars:\
          :ds=192.168.41.1:\
          :gw=192.168.40.1:\
          :ha=08002b2d1165:\
          :hd=/usr/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.2:\
          :hn:\
          :ht=ether:\
          :ip=192.168.40.10:\
          :sa=192.168.40.1:\
          :sm=255.255.255.0:\
          :td=/usr/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.2:\

Now other machines on the network, can nfs mount /usr/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.2, so
it is not the nfsd or mount d config.  The kernel also boots, so I dont
think it is the bootpd config.  Anyway, here is waht I get on tcp dump,

23:18:33.689964 obi-wan.swars.1023 > yoda.swars.tell: udp 80
23:18:38.689378 obi-wan.swars.1023 > yoda.swars.tell: udp 80
23:18:43.856808 obi-wan.swars.1023 > yoda.swars.tell: udp 80


and on thediskless workstation it reports

nfs_boot client addr= 0xc0a8280a
nfs_boot server addr= 0xc0a82801
nfs_boot hostname = obi-wan

then just fills up the screen with

RPC timeoute for server 0xc0a8280a
<and this will keep printing for ever!>


Any help would greatly be aprieciated!

---  Jared
--jared@vt.edu