[rescue] bootp and dhcp - conflict?

[David Brownlee]

jOn Fri, 6 May 2022 at 05:05, Dan Moisa <dmoisa at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks for the replies - I've tried the instructions here -
> https://www.netbsd.org/docs/network/netboot/finish.html
> It's clearly a problem *after* the kernel loads and starts mounting
> file systems, before that it loads pretty fast. The issue right now is
> that just adding the options doesn't have an impact. I can't even boot
> past rebuild font cache, much less configure and compile a new kernel
> with the new options. Even running vi takes 2 minutes to load off
> network, it's that bad.
> Either I figure out how to give it the params, or cross-compile a
> kernel? I can't tell if this is something I can set on the server
> side. I'll try tcpdump to see what's going on.

If you have another *nix system you should be able to cross compile a
kernel relatively easily

- download NetBSD src
- edit sys/arch/sun3/conf/GENERIC3X
- ./build.sh -U -m sun3 tools kernel=GENERIC3X

David