BOOTP/BSDP failed: no FILENAME specified open /netbsd

Hello,

I'm trying to netboot my Mac mini.
I've read and installed everything according to
http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/network
/netboot/intro.macppc.html

The boot process transfers the ofwboot.xcf but the Mac does
not seem to be
able to get the kernel. I'm using the dhcpd options:

        filename                       
"ofwboot.xcf";
        next-server                     10.0.0.254;
        option                          root-path
"/home/netboot/netbsd-head/macppc";

My inetd.conf is set as follow:
tftp            dgram   udp     wait    root   
/usr/libexec/tftpd     
tftpd -l -s /home/netboot

In "/home/netboot" lies the
"ofwboot.xcf", a symlink to
"netbsd-head/macppc/netbsd" named
"netbsd" and the "netbsd.gz" gzipped
copy of the real netbsd file.

Where is the kernel file supposed to be put ?
In tftpd directory or in the dhcpd's root-path ?

This is a -current from NetBSD-daily.

TIA,
   Jo

I would do a quick tcpdump(8) on NFS and DHCLIENT to make
sure that hte 
root-path and/or boot-file paramters are making it to the
client.

If so, are NFS "read" requests making it to the
NFS Server?

Can you put another host on that same address statically and
perform the 
NFS mount and read that the client would?

Process of elimination.

~BAS

On Fri, 11 May 2007, Joel CARNAT wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to netboot my Mac mini.
> I've read and installed everything according to
> http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/network
/netboot/intro.macppc.html
>
> The boot process transfers the ofwboot.xcf but the Mac
does not seem to be
> able to get the kernel. I'm using the dhcpd options:
>
>        filename                       
"ofwboot.xcf";
>        next-server                     10.0.0.254;
>        option                          root-path
> "/home/netboot/netbsd-head/macppc";
>
> My inetd.conf is set as follow:
> tftp            dgram   udp     wait    root   
/usr/libexec/tftpd
> tftpd -l -s /home/netboot
>
> In "/home/netboot" lies the
"ofwboot.xcf", a symlink to
> "netbsd-head/macppc/netbsd" named
"netbsd" and the "netbsd.gz" gzipped
> copy of the real netbsd file.
>
> Where is the kernel file supposed to be put ?
> In tftpd directory or in the dhcpd's root-path ?
>
> This is a -current from NetBSD-daily.
>
> TIA,
>   Jo
>
>
>

l8*
 	-lava (Brian A. Seklecki - Pittsburgh, PA, USA)
 	       http://www.spiritu
al-machines.org/

     "Guilty? Yeah. But he knows it. I mean, you're
guilty.
     You just don't know it. So who's really in jail?"
     ~James Maynard Keenan

>
> I would do a quick tcpdump(8) on NFS and DHCLIENT to
make sure that hte
> root-path and/or boot-file paramters are making it to
the client.
>

using "tcpdump -s 2045" on the server interface,
and then reading the log
file with "strings" I saw the reference to
ofwboot.xcf but never to
"netbsd" or any kernel looking name.

> If so, are NFS "read" requests making it to
the NFS Server?
>
> Can you put another host on that same address
statically and perform the
> NFS mount and read that the client would?
>

In fact, NetBSD is installed on the disk (in version
4.0_BETA2).
It is able to NFS mount from the server.

The netboot idea was to test -current without slashing the
whole disk.
So the client has all the rights to mount everything.

Furthemore, I tested netbooting OpenBSD 4.1 (from the same
client, same
server) only changing the "root-path" in
dhcpd.conf.

I'm wondering if this is not the same issue that I get when
trying to boot
from the iso file.

Regards,
  Jo

> Process of elimination.
>
> ~BAS
>
> On Fri, 11 May 2007, Joel CARNAT wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm trying to netboot my Mac mini.
>> I've read and installed everything according to
>> http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/network
/netboot/intro.macppc.html
>>
>> The boot process transfers the ofwboot.xcf but the
Mac does not seem to
>> be
>> able to get the kernel. I'm using the dhcpd
options:
>>
>>        filename                       
"ofwboot.xcf";
>>        next-server                     10.0.0.254;
>>        option                          root-path
>> "/home/netboot/netbsd-head/macppc";
>>
>> My inetd.conf is set as follow:
>> tftp            dgram   udp     wait    root   
/usr/libexec/tftpd
>> tftpd -l -s /home/netboot
>>
>> In "/home/netboot" lies the
"ofwboot.xcf", a symlink to
>> "netbsd-head/macppc/netbsd" named
"netbsd" and the "netbsd.gz" gzipped
>> copy of the real netbsd file.
>>
>> Where is the kernel file supposed to be put ?
>> In tftpd directory or in the dhcpd's root-path ?
>>
>> This is a -current from NetBSD-daily.
>>
>> TIA,
>>   Jo
>>
>>
>>
>
> l8*
>  	-lava (Brian A. Seklecki - Pittsburgh, PA, USA)
>  	       http://www.spiritu
al-machines.org/
>
>      "Guilty? Yeah. But he knows it. I mean,
you're guilty.
>      You just don't know it. So who's really in
jail?"
>      ~James Maynard Keenan
>
>