Re: mvme177 booting

["Steve Murphree" <smurph@smcomp.com>]

Netbooting requires rarp and bootparamd.  Yes Sun style netboot.  See
INSTALL.mvme68k.  If that is not complete, look at INSTALL.mvme88k.  They
are one and the same except for the execution addres.

----- Original Message -----
From: Karl Pitrich <pit@mail.clc.at>
To: <tech@openbsd.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 06, 2001 10:28 AM
Subject: mvme177 booting


> hi,
>
> i got some mvme177 boards and try to install obsd.
>
> i can successfully load netboot via tftp,
> netboot also gets its ip via rarp from the linux host,
> then however, netboot claims bootp whoami request failed.
> the bootp server ist verifyed working and started with -d 9,
> there is no request from the mvme machine.
>
> could it be, that stock netboot was compiled wit sun3 stuff instead of
> bootp? the error message iam getting is within some sun3 #defines?
>
> any other instructions on netbooting openbsd?
>
> 2nd:
>
> i tried to boot from tape also.
> i dd`ed bootst stboot and bsd.rd on the tape.
> same thing here, the tapeboot program appears and exits with some
> `unknown error` (tape offline no, forgot erro msg)
>
> thanks for help,
>
> Karl
>
>