SUMMARY: Sun/3 Remote boot problem?

From: Dave Shevett (sparc!shevett@erika.bighouse.unipress.com)
Date: Wed Nov 04 1992 - 15:01:56 CST


Once again, the list solves the problem in a matter of hours. I
originally asked why I was getting 'tftp timeout' errors when trying
to boot a newly added Sun/3 off our Sparcserver. I scanned TFM's, and
thought I had hit all the points needed (we have another Sun/3 that *does*
work) But, i neglected once step, as described below:

>Make sure that /tftpboot on the server contains a symlink named after
>the 3/50's Internet address in hex pointing to the boot block. Example:
>
>epsilon# cd /tftpboot
>epsilon# ls -l
>total 8544
>lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 21 Apr 28 1992 8169051B -> boot.sun3.sunos.4.1.1
>lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 21 Sep 30 14:00 81690531 -> boot.sun3.sunos.4.1.1
>lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 21 Jan 16 1992 81690534 -> boot.sun3.sunos.4.1.1
>lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 21 Feb 14 1992 81690536 -> boot.sun3.sunos.4.1.1
>lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 21 Sep 2 11:29 81690539 -> boot.sun3.sunos.4.1.1
>-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 101800 Jan 16 1992 boot.sun3.sunos.4.1.1
>-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 140520 Jan 15 1992 boot.sun4.sunos.4.1.1
>-rwxr-xr-x 1 root 110888 Jan 15 1992 boot.sun4c.sunos.4.1.1
>
> The symptoms you describe sound like this link is missing.

(Apologies to 'bill', whose example this is - i missed your address :)

Thanks to *all* who responded (about 40), who all had the correct answer.
Both server and workstation are doing fine. :)

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