> I can turn the thing on, set the mac address to something sensible, get > an ip from rarpd running on a linux box and start downloading > linux-a.out [for sparc] by tftpboot. The problem is that it doesnt > download the whole image, it stops at some arbitary [spelling?] point > and then tries to execute what it's got -obviously that doesnt work as > it hasnt got the whole image. Any ideas? the tftpd seems to work ok as i > can download the entire image using a tftpclient on another machine. I've had a similar problem with an SLC stopping at 1ec00 every boot. This was because OpenBoot doesn't respond to ARP requests while it is downloading the image. Solution - hardware the SPARCs MAC address on the server (arp -s IIRC or /etc/ethers) or increase the ARP time out beyond the couple of minutes taken to tftp the kernel. A can of ethereal(1) shoudl confirm that this is the case as you should see a bunch of ARP requests from the server after the download halts.
Additionally I've had problems with a more loaded network - it seems early versions of OpenBoot don't retry if they loose a packet in the middle of the download - they just appear to stop. HTH Sweet Dreams, - Martin -- Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Seasons change, things come to pass"
