Network boot

[Greg Walker <Nyquist@Daq-Design.com>]

Hi all,

I am attempting to remote boot a SparcStation20 from one of my other debian 
boxes. I have copied the working kernel from a Sparc5 to the /tftpboot 
directory on my server (running debian 3 on i686). I have renamed it to have 
the correct hex prefix as the IP address to which the image should be served 
but the Sparc20 does not seem to do a great deal. I was hoping that at least 
it would execute the kernel even though I do not (yet) have a sparc 
filesystem for the SS20 on the i686 machine. ( I am awaiting an Ultra30 for 
this)

Here is my ethers file.
cat /etc/ethers
08:00:20:1d:ce:52       10.0.0.64

This is from the syslog as the sparc20 does a boot net from openboot prom,

rarpd[1149]: RARP request from 08:00:20:1d:ce:52 on if-1073744616
rarpd[1149]: RARP response to 08:00:20:1d:ce:52 10.0.0.64 on eth0
rarpd[1149]: RARP request from 08:00:20:1d:ce:52 on if-1073744616
rarpd[1149]: RARP response to 08:00:20:1d:ce:52 10.0.0.64 on eth0
in.tftpd[1177]: connect from 10.0.0.64

And here is the tftp log showing that the correct file is being sent to the 
SS20

tftpd[1286]: Serving 0A000040.SUN4M to 10.0.0.64:63149
tftpd[1287]: Serving 0A000040.SUN4M to 10.0.0.64:63149
tftpd[1288]: Serving 0A000040.SUN4M to 10.0.0.64:63149
tftpd[1289]: Serving 0A000040.SUN4M to 10.0.0.64:63149
tftpd[1292]: Serving 0A000040.SUN4M to 10.0.0.64:63149
tftpd[1293]: Serving 0A000040.SUN4M to 10.0.0.64:63149
tftpd[1294]: Serving 0A000040.SUN4M to 10.0.0.64:63149
tftpd[1296]: Serving 0A000040.SUN4M to 10.0.0.64:63149
tftpd[1297]: Serving 0A000040.SUN4M to 10.0.0.64:63149
tftpd[1298]: Serving 0A000040.SUN4M to 10.0.0.64:63149

On the SS20 all I get is a repeated "timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet"

I am sure I am missing something simple, is there anything else I could try 
here?

Thanks
Greg



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