[9fans] diskless boot of one terminal off kfs machine

["Steve Simon" <steve.simon@ntlworld.com>]

Hi,

I'am still struggling trying to get a (hard) disk-less terminal to boot
from a kfs standalone machine.

The kfs machine is savan and the diskless one is larch.

I have connected the two machines together via a crossover 10baseT cable
point to point.

I use savan (a laptop) all the time and the 3c589 works faultlessly.

I have hit several IRQ miseries on larch but I have got a combination that
works.
If I boot the install floppy on my diskless machine and do an explicit
ip/ipconfig I can ping the larchbox from savan.

I have added the MAC address to /lib/ndb/local on savan so DHCP can work.
I renamed the services in /rc/bin/service/_* to remove the _s

On savan then I run:
    aux/lisen il
    aux/listen tcp
    ip/dhcpd -d

I use the attached plan9.ini to boot larch into the 9pc.gz kernel.

it complains about not being able to find local/bzroot but continues - it
sees the
ethernet card OK. It prompts me for "root is from" th the bootargs (as
expected)
I accept this. Then I give my user name (same as on savan) and larch hangs.

After a few minuites it panics having given up trying to attach to the
fileserer.

netstat shows no open connections, the debug flag on dhcpd has caused no
output ether

What have i missed?

Also is it possible to boot from 9load rather than from 9pc.gz - this would
mean keeping
less state on larch's boot floppy.

-Steve