Re: Netbooting Trouble with 712/100

On 02/20/13 06:12, [email protected] wrote:
> On Tue, 19 Feb 2013 09:02:36 +0000 Nick Hudson <[email protected]> wrote
>
> Thanks for the fast reply, Nick!
>
>
>>> If I run 'search' on the boot admin menu of the HP, it gives me the IP
>>> address of the DHCP server, so I know it's receiving traffic. It just won't
>>> "go" for some reason, and I'm not seeing any error or diagnostic messages
>>> outside of 'boot failed'.
>> It should report the tftp server where the kernel is held.
>>
> This was the critical hint I needed, I found the issue in the DHCP server
> settings and got it to get it's bootloader.
>
> I'm getting a different issue now, however. If I do nothing, the bootloader
> spits out this error message:
>
> open lf0a:netbsd Input/output error


This looks like a truncated file on the tftp server to me. Or maybe too 
many errors on download?
>
> ..and tries again on an endless loop. Manually typing in 'lf0a:netbsd' usually
> fails with the same, but adding one of the prompted options (like -c) goes just
> a bit further:
>
> Start @ 0x2000000 [1=0xf0e000-0xf0e45c]
> btlb info: minsz=128, maxsz=16384
> btlb fixed: i=0, d=0, c=8
> btlb varbl: i=0, d=0, c=0
>
>
> This was with trying the SYSNBSD file from 6.0.1; results with trying
> netinstall.lif and from SYSNBSD from 6.0 were similar.
>

Same (truncate download)

Nick