Re: Failing to netboot

> On 29 Apr 2025, at 17:49, Alexander Schreiber <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hmm, I keep hearing anecdotes about modern (GBit) switches technically
> being able to drop down all the way to 10 MBit/s, but that not working
> all that well - maybe try a more ... "period correct" (e.g. tops out at
> 100 MBit/s) switch, which _might_ work better with 10 MBit/s clients?

Yes, this is essentially what I’ve been thinking.

>> In theory this problem shouldn’t really hit the boot.net file, it’s less than
>> 70k in size, and I don’t think I ever saw anything fail that soon, but it
>> could be part of it.
>> 
>>> Getting an older TFTP server software or upgrading the OBP version can help
>>> avoid this issue.
>> 
>> It’s on OBP 2.4 which I think is newest for these machines.

Whoops, make that OBP 2.9

>> 
>> Tftp is sitting on a raspberry pi running Debian. Can try some other options.
>> The contents are actually being NFS mounted from a NAS, and try moving the
>> files locally too.
> 
> That NAS presumably runs _some_ version of Linux, which leaves another
> trap: Does the NAS support NFSv2 and is it enabled? I don't have experience
> with port-sparc netbooting, but the port-sparc64 loader only supports
> NFSv2, which these days tends to be turned off by default on Linux and
> is generally not longer tested by Linux distributions (IIRC Redhat went
> all way to "not officially supported anymore”)


Yes, running Linux, interestingly it only allows me to set a maximum version, not a minimum. 
Supports everything from 2 and up.

Currently installing 10.1 from NFS to a local SCSI2SD device.. Will see how things go from there.

Matt.