[9fans] diskless terminal

[9fans] diskless terminal

[okamoto]

I'm planning to have two file servers of release 2 and 3, and a auth server
(if possible) and terminals, Suns for release 2, PCs for release 3.  For PCs
I expect to switch relase by different booting floppies.

I have two file servers up, andesite(release 2) and gabbro(release 3).
I also have two diskless auth/cpu servers for relase 2(rhyolite) and
release 3(diabase).  These works fine, I suppose.

When I login to a release 2 terminal, and dispatch a command say
term% rx diabase man dhcpd
then, I have man pages for release 3 from release 3 file server (gabbro).
When I dispatch telnet command to a machine outside the Plan 9 system,
then it's successfull connection to the machine.  From these observations
I suppose my release 3 auth/cpu server is working fine.

However, when I tried to boot release 3 terminal from a PC, I get never
success.

When I tried to boot from 9load only floppy, I have
bootp timed out.

When I tried to boot from 9load +9pc.gz, after root is from: message I have
boot: can't connect to file server: connection timed out (connect 192.168.1.10!17008)
panic: boot process died: unknown

I'm in stuck.  What am doing wrong?  I probably don't understand
the 9LOAD mechanism...

Kenji

Re: [9fans] diskless terminal

[okamoto]

When I boot release 2 b.com from the same termianl machine (192.168.1.5),
I got the following log on our release 3 auth/cpu server(192.168.1.11):

dhcp: bootp 0.0.0.0->192.168.1.11 from hwa01_xxxxxxxxxxxx via 192.1681.1.11
dhcp: bootp reply to: 192.168.1.5 /386/9pc via 192.168.1.5
dhcp: bootp 0.0.0.0->192.168.1.11 from hwa01_xxxxxxxxxxxx via 192.168.1.11
dhcp: p9bootp: 192.168.1.5
dhcp: bootp reply to: 192.168.1.5 /386/9pc via 192.168.1.5: p9 255.255.255.255.0 192.168.1.10 192.168.1.11 192.168.1.3

And I have release 2 window system on the machine.

However, when I boot from release 3 9load, I have no record of such logs
on the auth/cpu server machine.


PS. all the xxxxxxxxxxxx should be read as a real ether address and is correctly
recognized.

Kenji

Re: [9fans] diskless terminal

[okamoto]

And the following is tthe debugging info...

PBS...Plan 9 from Bell Labs
using fd0!dos!plan9.ini
copy eaddr from eeprom...ether#0: elnk3: port 0x280 irq 10: xxxxxxxxxxxx
upsend xxxxxxxxxxxx to ffffffffffff...
transmit...send...upsend xxxxxxxxxxxx to ffffffffffff
         .....
         ..... 9 lines of same above
bootp timed out

Kenji

Re: [9fans] diskless terminal

[okamoto]

Hmm.. my broken English as usual!

>When I dispatch telnet command to a machine outside the Plan 9 system,

I dispatched telnet command from the release 3 auth/cpu server (diabase),
and got success.

>boot: can't connect to file server: connection timed out (connect 192.168.1.10!17008)


192.168.1.10 is the release file server gabbro.

>What am doing wrong?

I DON't want to correct this.  :-)

Kenji