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Richard Yao | 22 Jun 2012 09:00
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IP25 Support Question

My department has a SGI Rackmount Power Onyx that was sold to us by SGI
as a Power Challenge. It has IP25 boards. Can it run NetBSD?

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Pierre-Philipp Braun | 29 Jun 2012 14:07
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bootp could not connect to server (no source for :.)

Hi,

I've got two questions about an O² I recovered.  First, I've got 
troubles using the serial console.  I can see the text but it doesn't 
respond to inputs.  I need to press '5' to access the command monitor 
and nothing happens.  Maybe that's related to my terminal though, I'll 
have to run another tests.

Also in graphics mode, with a ps/2 keyboard plugged in, when I try to 
bootp (there's a netbsd install server on the network, with dhcpd.conf: 
allow bootp; and filename "netbsd"; in it and tftp serving 
/tftpboot/netbsd which is unzipped 
NetBSD-5.0.2/sgimips/binary/kernel/netbsd-INSTALL32_IP3x.gz), I get this 
error,
	No server for :.
	[sgi troubleshooting messages...]
	[...] bootp [...] could not connect to server

Any help, feedback or experience on those two issues would be appreciated.

Many thanks,
Pierre-Philipp
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David Brownlee | 29 Jun 2012 14:24
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Re: bootp could not connect to server (no source for :.)

On 29 June 2012 13:07, Pierre-Philipp Braun <pbraun <at> nethence.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've got two questions about an O² I recovered.  First, I've got troubles
> using the serial console.  I can see the text but it doesn't respond to
> inputs.  I need to press '5' to access the command monitor and nothing
> happens.  Maybe that's related to my terminal though, I'll have to run
> another tests.

Try with/without hardware flow control?

> Also in graphics mode, with a ps/2 keyboard plugged in, when I try to bootp
> (there's a netbsd install server on the network, with dhcpd.conf: allow
> bootp; and filename "netbsd"; in it and tftp serving /tftpboot/netbsd which
> is unzipped NetBSD-5.0.2/sgimips/binary/kernel/netbsd-INSTALL32_IP3x.gz), I
> get this error,
>        No server for :.
>        [sgi troubleshooting messages...]
>        [...] bootp [...] could not connect to server
>
> Any help, feedback or experience on those two issues would be appreciated.

Do you see anything from the SGI on the server? (
tcpdump ether host 00:11:22:33:44:55)
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Fabian Wenk | 29 Jun 2012 16:01
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Re: bootp could not connect to server (no source for :.)

Hello Pierre-Philipp

On 29.06.2012 14:07, Pierre-Philipp Braun wrote:
> Any help, feedback or experience on those two issues would be appreciated.

A long time ago I wrote the notes "How to install NetBSD 2.0_BETA 
on a SGI O2 with MIPS R10000 CPU" [1] down, maybe they are any 
help to you, it includes even the dhcp config needed to netboot.

   [1] http://www.wenks.ch/fabian/NetBSD-SGI-O2.txt

bye
Fabian
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Pierre-Philipp Braun | 30 Jun 2012 21:13
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Re: bootp could not connect to server (no source for :.)

David, Fabian,

There was something wrong with my terminal.  I've switched to another 
one and it works now.

About the bootp/network issue, I was missing the 'host' declaration in 
dhcpd.conf.  I though the IP could be simply attributed with the 
'subnet' declaration, but using fixed-address against the ethernet 
address, instead of the general 'range', helped a lot.  Maybe 
server-name="x.x.x.x"; too.  I didn't have that one, I only had 
next-server x.x.x.x.

I'm getting into sysinst, everything's fine.  But I just figured out 
there doesn't seem to be a harddrive in that O², according to what 
'hinv' says.  So I'll have to find relevant SCSI weiring and drives to 
connect to.

Thanks,
Pierre-Philipp
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