Re: netbooting hppa boxes

Matt Fredette <[email protected]> Tue, 2 Jul 2002 10:12:43 -0400 (EDT)

Newsgroups	gmane.os.netbsd.ports.hp700
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

> > Newer machines use DHCP and TFTP to netboot, this may be one.
> 
> Ah yes, DHCP!
> 
> Do you know what it's expecting back?
> BOOTREQUEST from 08:00:09:d2:72:c2 via le0
> BOOTREPLY for 192.168.1.170 to d390-1 (08:00:09:d2:72:c2) via le0
> 
> but all the console shows is "Failed to initialize".

This page talks some about the models that use DHCP:

http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/network/netboot/intro.hp700.html

This page has an example /etc/bootptab configuration:

http://openbsd.org/hppa.html

I don't know much more, as all of my machines are of the rbootd vintage.

Matt

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Matt Fredette