Net booting a Sun 4/280 w/ NetBSD or OpenBSD

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1 total messages Started by G.K. Meier Fri, 20 Feb 1998 00:00

Author: G.K. Meier
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 1998 00:00

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I have a Sun 4/280 (SUN4 arch.) which I am having problems net booting.

boot it using the one of the following commands 
b ie()
b ie()netbsd -s

It it does the RARP and TFTP stuff just fine
and gets, and executes the boot.net file for net booting (from the netbsd
distribution)

Then  it says the following on the screen

>> NetBSD/sparc Secondary Boot, Revision 1.7
>> pk@flanbard, Fri Jan 2 00:10:58 MET 1998
using IP Address 128.193.138.242 = 80C18AF2
boot: client IP address: 128.193.138.242
boot: client name: vitekt
root addr = 128.193.136.200  path=/export/vitekt/root
Can't open network device `ie(0,0,0)'
open: netbsd: Unknown error: code 13

then it prompts me for device and boot
device[ie(0,0,0)]:
boot:
then gives me an error code 24 no matter what I type in

in /export/vitekt/root is a base install of NetBSD w/ generic kernal
(base.tgz, etc.tgz, dev.tgz) and in /export/vitekt/root/etc the following
have been modified 
fstab to reflect nfs mount points
hosts
myname
hostname.ie0

Any ideas of why it is not finding or starting the kernal
or daemons I should look for that may not be (or should be) started?

Sincerely,
	G.K. Meier
meierg@ucs.orst.edu

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