From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Nov 24 16:20:00 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA22125 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 16:20:00 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA22108 for ; Sun, 24 Nov 1996 16:19:37 -0800 (PST) Received: (from msmith@localhost) by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.8.2/8.7.3) id KAA26016; Mon, 25 Nov 1996 10:49:19 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199611250019.KAA26016@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: rarpd In-Reply-To: from Warner Losh at "Nov 23, 96 11:41:00 pm" To: imp@village.org (Warner Losh) Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 10:49:18 +1030 (CST) Cc: fenner@parc.xerox.com, hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Warner Losh stands accused of saying: > OK. The host.conf problem was the problem. I'm now getting RPC > timeouts on the thing I'm trying to boot because I'm not running > portmapper or bootparamd. Go figure :-). At least RARP is out of the > way now. There's an error in the bootparamd manpage that will have you tearing your hair out; the paths returned need to be in the form 'root=host:/path', not 'root=/path'. I have a patch for this to commit as soon as I can get a connection to freefall. It would be good perhaps to add some more debugging to bootparamd, but the code is _awful_. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[