Re: [9fans] Terminal Problem

[forsyth@caldo.demon.co.uk]

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the root can come from the file server -- answer il to root from ... -- but the file server itself doesn't
boot terminals using bootp/tftpd.  that's done by a cpu server running ip/dhcpd and ip/tftpd.
see the commented-out lines in /rc/bin/cpurc.
furthermore the terminals need to be set for booting in /lib/ndb (eg, /lib/ndb/local),
for instance

ip=200.1.1.46 ether=00a0cc3cd489 sys=vivido
	dom=vivido.vitanuova.com
	bootf=/386/9pc
	proto=il

the ether= and bootf= are needed for booting; proto=il is needed to cause the
terminal once booted to use il for other services (such as cpu).
if ip/dhcpd is running on a cpu server, you can look at /sys/log/ipboot
to track its actions.

for the above entry to work, the /lib/ndb/local also should have fs= and auth=
entries at the subnet or network level.  (you can include them per terminal, but
that's normally done only if they need to be different from the default configuration.)


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From: Dave Iafrate - CSCI/F1997 <diafrate@scs.ryerson.ca>
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: [9fans] Terminal Problem
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 14:02:58 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0104161401140.7609-100000@jupiter.scs.ryerson.ca>

We seem to have a problem with out terminal setup.  Bootp times out when
we try to boot from ether0.  Do we have to compile a kernel for
this.  We're booting from a floppy trying to boot from the file server.

Thanks in advance