Re: booting via bootparamd/rbootd

Philip Blundell (philb@gnu.org)
Tue, 16 Mar 1999 18:26:28 +0000


>I'm trying to boot my HP9000/433 from my Linux machine by using rbootd
>and bootparamd on the Linux machine.
>
>The HP (milpix) is getting the kernel options/bootloaders and the
>kernel from the Linux machine (papadoc), and the NetBSD kernel is
>booting, but when it tries to mount the root fs from papadoc, the
>NetBSD kernel times out.
>
>When papadoc is running 2.0.36-ac15, everything is working as it should,
>but I have tried both 2.2.2, 2.2.3 and 2.2.3-ac1 with and without KNFSD
>support, without luck.
>
>It seems like bootparamd 'gives up' after the first connect... It

If the problem is with bootparamd, it has nothing to do with Linux and
certainly not with the kernel. Talk to the NetBSD people.

p.

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