Re: Trouble building -current

Michael Wolfson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.hp700
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Nov 14, 2004, at 2:54 PM, Jochen Kunz wrote:

>> That kinda makes it difficult for me to try playing with this platform
> Well. It is still an experimental port.

I know, but it's hard to experiment with it if a) I can't build it and 
b) I can't boot the snapshot.  :(

> What exactely is your problem? tftp the LIF images with boot loader and
> kernel. The kernel should do a DHCP query and mount the NFS directory
> specified via DHCP.

The latter.  It never sends the DHCP request and hangs there waiting 
for a response to the question it never asked.

> As said: This is an experimental port. Please don't expect that
> everything works out of the box.

Oh, I don't.  I just had high hopes of finally putting a useful OS on 
this machine.

Think of it as a gentle attempt to reinvigorate work on this port.

   -- MW
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