Re: Netbooting a sparc64 (netbsd-6)

Chris Ross <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.current,gmane.os.netbsd.ports.sparc64
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 02/27/2012 04:08 AM, Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 08:58:16PM -0500, Chris Ross wrote:
>> root on bge0
> I think we have seen firmware versions that break the bge interface they
> use to download ofwboot/kernel so it would not work properly afterwards.
> Do you have the latest firmware version for your machine installed?
>
> Check on the dhcp server (or nfs server) with tcpdump if it gets any packets
> after the kernel has taken over...
>

   Thanks.  I'll check that first, as I believe it is not the most 
up-to-date OBP on the machine.  And, I'm pretty sure the DHCP server 
didn't see any packets, at least not enough of a packet for it to log 
seeing a request, so.

   Thanks for the pointer.

                                    - Chris
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