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Netbooting a sparc.


I am trying to netboot a Sparc SLC with OpenBSD 2.3 and am running into
diffuculties. The sparc can do phase 1, but in phase 2, where it broadcasts
the 'whoami' call, it is sending them to 255.255.255.255. Is there any way
to tell the boot loader what the netmask is so it uses the proper broadcast
ip or is there something else that needs to be done? After issuing the 'boot
le()' command at the ok prompt, it loaded the boot loader, boot gets its ip
with rarp, and then it sits for 10 or 15 seconds, and then gives the
following error message.

bootparamd: 'whoami' call failed
Can't open network device 'le(0,0,0)'
open: bsd: Unknown error: code 72

This is my first sparc to play with, so I am not that familiar with the way
they work. I am using FreeBSD 2.2.6-stable as the boot server. bootparamd is
loaded, showing as registered with the portmapper, and this is the contents
of /etc/bootparams.

rowe	root=207.173.133.202:/export/rowe/root \
        swap=207.173.133.202:/export/rowe/swap


Any help is appriciated. 

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 Jason K. Fritcher
  jkf@wolfnet.org