On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 07:17:07AM -0500, Patrick Welche wrote: > I have 2 laptops with identical cases if not identical internals. One is > my everyday -current/amd64 laptop. I have been trying to netboot the > other one which keeps failing to load the kernel over nfs, at the stage > where the twiddle is still printing the first number. (I think there are > normally 3.) > > pxeboot_bin and the kernels are all a few day old -current/amd64. > I tried GENERIC, GENERIC with DEBUG (no extra printing), a compressed > GENERIC, and the kernel from the working laptop. Repeating the > netboot, the load would always stop at the same place for that > kernel. (Different places for different kernels, so not "network > transferred given number of bytes".) Compressed and corresponding > uncompressed kernels stop at the same place. I also tried a > GENERIC/i386 kernel (in case of "can't cope with instruction XXX"), > and the same happened.
Just in case, I downloaded pxeboot_ia32.bin and netbsd-INSTALL.gz from ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-archive/NetBSD-5.2.3/amd64/ and same thing happens: >> NetBSD/x86 PXE Boot, Revision 5.1 (from NetBSD 5.2.3) >> Memory: 550/2998080 k Press return to boot now, any other key for boot menu Starting in 0 seconds. PXE BIOS Version 2.1 Using PCI device at bus 0 device 25 function 0 Ethernet address 00:23:18:90:91:92 10185608 stops at 10185608 every time... P
