Re: Netbooting Trouble with 712/100

On 02/27/13 06:53, [email protected] wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Feb 2013 23:42:47 +0000 Nick Hudson <[email protected]> wrote
>
>>> ..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)
>>
> I've learned a lot about the TFTP protocol these last few days...
>
> 1) Solaris 10's TFTP server implementation and the HP712 aren't compatible. the
> HP wants an option that Solaris doesn't implement.
>
> 2) Using Wireshark during boot, it appears the entire LIF file is being
> transferred.
>
> 3) After downloading the LIF onto another system using tftp, the md5sum matches
> what's on the tftp server.
>
> ..and I still get that 'btlb' output mentioned above just before a hard hang.
> No I/O error messages though.
>
> It seems to be loading the kernel, and then something goes wrong before the
> kernel runs. I doubt it's a hardware problem as I get a working install of
> HP-UX 10.20 if I boot from disk; It even starts X11 with CDE.
>
>
>

Can you post the full boot output and try to add the debug flag (-d) to 
the boot. Hopefully,
we can set  breakpoints to see how far it gets.

Nick