From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Apr 20 11:26:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from relay02.chello.nl (relay02.chello.nl [212.83.68.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55F8437B58E for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 11:26:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wkb@chello.nl) Received: from chello.nl ([213.46.78.184]) by relay02.chello.nl (InterMail vK.4.02.00.00 201-232-116 license 99c8f334c649856e3f2cdadc4054e412) with ESMTP id <20000420182608.DSSH18572.relay02@chello.nl>; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 20:26:08 +0200 Received: (from wkb@localhost) by chello.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA06611; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 20:26:09 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 20:26:09 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: Gheorghe Ardelean Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: firmware updating problems Message-ID: <20000420202609.A6499@yedi.wbnet> Reply-To: wc.bulte@chello.nl References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from ardelean@quasar.uvt.ro on Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 09:07:40PM +0300 X-OS: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 09:07:40PM +0300, Gheorghe Ardelean wrote: > I have (at our Univ) a DEC3000 Model400 and I'd like to install > FreeBSD on it. Beware that FreeBSD does not currently support the SCSI interface on DEC3000 series machines. It should be able to run diskless. See also the HARDWARE.TXT file for FreeBSD-4.0 and -current. > Looking with tcpdump on the boot server I see the following: > > 21:04:13.083134 arp who-has 0.0.0.0 (10:0:0:0:0:0) tell jad2.uvt.ro > 21:04:21.520591 arp who-has 0.0.0.0 (10:0:0:0:0:0) tell jad2.uvt.ro > 21:04:27.769809 arp who-has phys-ppp-gw.uvt.ro (f:0:0:0:0:0) tell > jad2.uvt.ro > 21:04:27.770060 arp reply phys-ppp-gw.uvt.ro is-at 0:0:c0:fe:b0:4a > 21:04:27.771579 jad2.uvt.ro.60581 > phys-ppp-gw.uvt.ro.tftp: 24 tftp-#0 > [tos 0x1] (ttl 30, id 2447, bad cksum c976!) > > (jad2.uvt.ro is the alpha machine and phys-ppp-gw is the PC acting like > BOOTP/TFTPD server) > > Here is the /etc/bootptab file contents: > > jad2:ht=ethernet:ha=08002b38be3a:hd=/:td=/tftboot:bf=m400_v7_0.btp:\ > :ds=193.226.14.33:dn=uvt.ro:gw=193.226.13.65:hn:\ > :ip=193.226.13.100:sm=255.255.255.192:bs=auto: What I've been using to boot FreeBSD on my DEC3000/40 is: sandpiper:\ :ht=ethernet:ha=08002B3C6145:\ :ip=192.168.200.19:sm=255.255.255.0:sa=192.168.200.22:\ :hd="/usr/sandpiper":bf=netboot:rp="192.168.200.22:/usr/sandpiper":vm=rfc1048: But I think there might be SRM firmware out there that just does not do the right thing to tftp. This might mean you need a CD to upgrade your firmware. W/ -- Wilko Bulte Powered by FreeBSD http://www.freebsd.org http://www.tcja.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message