NetBSD Problem Report #8650

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Date: Tue, 19 Oct 1999 12:46:10 -0700 (PDT)
From: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl
Reply-To: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl
To: gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org
Subject: netboot on DEC3000 alpha box no longer works
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>Number:         8650
>Category:       port-alpha
>Synopsis:       netboot on DEC3000 alpha box no longer works
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    port-alpha-maintainer
>State:          closed
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Oct 19 12:50:59 +0000 1999
>Closed-Date:    Wed Apr 21 23:03:36 +0000 2010
>Last-Modified:  Wed Apr 21 23:03:36 +0000 2010
>Originator:     Wilko Bulte
>Release:        1.4.1
>Organization:
none
>Environment:
>Description:
When attempting a bootp boot from the SRM console on a DEC3000/400
netboot complains about not being able to open the boot device. Note that
this is an older SRM version, but that the very latest (V7.0) on the
DEC3000 does not do bootp right at all.

Console output:
>How-To-Repeat:
see description

>Fix:
unfortunately no fix known.

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc:  Subject: port-alpha/8650
Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 22:39:15 +0200 (CEST)

 Hello Ross,

 Apologies for the long delay in following up. I had to resurrect my
 Sandpiper by downloading SRM via the SROM after I managed to kill the SRM
 flash contents :-(

 In the meantime I got netbooting going using:

 DEC 3000 - M400
 Digital Equipment Corporation
      VPP PAL V5.56-82000101/OSF PAL V1.45-82000201 - Built on 27-JAN-1997
 19:34:48.30

 TCINFO      DEVNAM        DEVSTAT
 ------      --------      --------
                  CPU      OK KN15-BA -V7.0-S887-I21F-sV1.0-DECchip 21064
 P3.0

 and bootparamd with the following /etc/bootparams

 sandpiper:\
 :ht=ethernet:ha=08002B3C6145:\
 :ip=192.168.200.19:sm=255.255.255.0:sa=192.168.200.1:\
 :hd=/local/tftp:bf=netboot.fbsd:rp=/local/tftp:vm=rfc1048:

 The trick is in using the :vm=rfc1048. If this is omitted the boot will
 not work at all. SRM 7.0 is the latest SRM for the DEC3000 series BTW.

 What also does not work is the isc-dhcpd. This will do bootp along with
 dhcpd (as it's name suggest) but it does not seem to be able to satisfy
 the DEC3000 bootp protocol.

 Maybe this information can be fed onto www.netbsd.org?

 Wilko
 -- 
 |   / o / /  _  	 Arnhem, The Netherlands	- Powered by FreeBSD -
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From: "Aaron J. Grier" <agrier@poofy.goof.com>
To: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Cc:  Subject: port-alpha/8650
Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1999 16:27:01 -0800

 I emailed this to those who I thought were the maintainers of
 http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/alpha/netboot.html back in August.
 Apparently the information never made it back in the FAQ.

 To summarize, for bootp, add "vm=rfc1048" and "hn" fields to your
 bootptab file.

 For dhcpd, look at
 http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-alpha/1999/05/19/0008.html
 for an example dhcpd.conf snippet that I (still) use.

 ----- Forwarded message from "Aaron J. Grier" <agrier@poofy.goof.com> -----

 Date: Thu, 5 Aug 1999 22:44:07 -0700
 From: "Aaron J. Grier" <agrier@poofy.goof.com>
 To: cjs@netbsd.org
 Cc: abs@netbsd.org
 Subject: addition to the alpha netboot FAQ?
 X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4us

 This actually started in a thread back in May on the port-alpha list.
 Dave Johnson <ddj@world.std.com> is actually the guy who knew the proper
 magic (he got it from http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~armhold/) to get
 netbooting to work for SRM 7.0 under bootp (add the fields hn and
 vm=rfc1048) -- I just figured out the equivalents under dhcpd.conf by
 scrounging a bit on altavista and dejanews.

 The original messages can be found on the port-alpha archives, starting
 May 18th, entitled "netbooting 3000/400".

 Hope the info can make it into the alpha netbooting FAQ...

 ----- Forwarded message from Allen Briggs <briggs@ninthwonder.com> -----

 Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1999 08:07:48 -0400
 From: Allen Briggs <briggs@ninthwonder.com>
 To: port-alpha@netbsd.org
 Subject: Re: Installing on DEC 3000 - 600
 Message-ID: <19990803080747.Z356@canolog.ninthwonder.com>

 > 4) netboot off of another machine...
 > 
 > > You might be totally lucky, and have an old-SRM that can actually
 > > netboot, I think I saw it work, once...
 > 
 > My 3000/400s, running SRM 7.0, have no problems tftpbooting, so long as
 > I turn on both always-reply-rfc1048 and use-host-decl-names in my
 > dhcpd.conf file.
 > 
 > You can find tftp (or MOP) bootable SRMs at
 > http://ftp.digital.com/pub/DEC/Alpha/firmware/readmes/dec3000.html

 This info, especially the dhcpd.conf settings, should be in the FAQ.
 Can you make sure it gets there, Aaron?

 -allen

 ----- End forwarded message -----
 ----
   Aaron J. Grier  | "Not your ordinary poofy goof." | agrier@poofy.goof.com
     "[...] of all the port lists to grumble to about slow CPU speeds and
      other resource limitations, I'd imagine that port-vax is not a very
      good choice :-)"  --  Brian D. Chase

 ----- End forwarded message -----

 -- 
   Aaron J. Grier  | "Not your ordinary poofy goof." | agrier@poofy.goof.com
    "I really admire your perverse mastery of the SPARC branch delay slot,
       Dave.  Or is it your mastery of the perverse branch delay slot?"
 	          -- Joe Martin to Dave S. Miller on linux-kernel
State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback
State-Changed-By: jakllsch@NetBSD.org
State-Changed-When: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 19:25:04 +0000
State-Changed-Why:
Appears to have been fixed in Documentation/network/netboot/intro.alpha.html
revision 1.3, over a decade ago.


State-Changed-From-To: feedback->closed
State-Changed-By: jakllsch@NetBSD.org
State-Changed-When: Wed, 21 Apr 2010 23:03:36 +0000
State-Changed-Why:
Feedback bounced, looks resolved to me.


>Unformatted:
 >>> sho conf

 DEC 3000 - M400
 Digital Equipment Corporation
      VPP PAL X5.48-82000101/OSF PAL X1.35-82000201 - Built on  1-DEC-1994 13:00:42.45

 TCINFO      DEVNAM        DEVSTAT
 ------      --------      --------
                  CPU      OK KN15-BA -V6.0-S7D4-I1DF-sV1.0-DECchip 21064  P3.0
                  OSC      133 MHz
                 ASIC      OK
                  MEM      OK
 8
 7
                  NVR      OK
                  SCC      OK
                   NI      OK
                 ISDN      OK
 6
                 SCSI      OK
 1-PMAZC-AA      TC1    

 >>> 


 >>> boot ez0
 INIT-S-CPU...
 INIT-S-RESET_TC...
 INIT-S-ASIC...
 INIT-S-MEM...
 INIT-S-NVR...
 INIT-S-SCC...
 INIT-S-NI...
 INIT-S-SCSI...
 INIT-S-ISDN...
 INIT-S-TC1...
 AUDIT_BOOT_STARTS ... 
 AUDIT_BOOT_REQ 
 Host server IP address is 192.168.200.10
 AUDIT_BSERVER_FOUND
 AUDIT_LOAD_BEGINS

 AUDIT_LOAD_DONE

 NetBSD/alpha 1.4.1 Network Bootstrap, Revision 1.7
 (root@sandpiper.iaf.nl, Aug 15 03:38:19 PDT 1999)

 Boot device (BOOTP 0 7 0 0 0 2 CORE-IO) open failed.
 Boot failed!  Halting...

 ?05 HLT INSTR
   PC= 00000000.20000038 PSL= 00000000.00001F00

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