Re: NetBSD/ofppc boots multiuser on Pegasos

Simon Burge wrote:
> =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jorge_Acereda_Maci=E1?= wrote:
> 
> 
>>I finally got NetBSD/ofppc to boot multiuser via NFS on a Pegasos II 
>>motherboard. NFS reads are ok, but writes are broken (I suspect of a 
>>firmware bug, something to do with packet size, but have to verify it).
> 
> 
> Does
> 
> 	options NFS_BOOT_RWSIZE=1024
> 
> help?  This can help tremendously when your ethernet driver and/or
> hardware isn't up to scratch where all the UDP retries on reads or
> writes kill NFS.

Indeed. It helps to the point that without that option it doesn't even 
mount root :-)

Maybe you have a theory on what's going on. When I copy a file, what I 
get on the NFS server is a file of the same size, but with chunks of 
zeros interleaved, that is:

0x0000 <correct data>
0x1000 <zeros>
0x2000 <correct data>
0x3000 <zeros>
...

It's annoying how regular it is :-)