manager@spool.mu.edu (Steven Goodman) (10/08/90)
Haven't been reading this newsgroup lately and perhaps this is an "old" problem, but here goes.. I am attempting to boot a diskless SLC off of a SS1+. I am not running NIS and I am running DNS. ( SunOS 4.1 ). When I begin to boot the SLC all looks OK until the time where the bootparamd starts it's job. The SLC reports the error No bootparam server responding; still trying. And of course it tries forever. If I put the servers bootparamd into debug mode it will report this error. bb_getclntent failed. OK - I am starting to figure that this is somehow incompatable with DNS? So Leaving the SLC attempting to talk to the servers bootparamd I mv /etc/resolv.conf to someother place and kill and restart bootparamd. It works! Problem is that if the server ever goes down I always need to be around to manually start things up again :-( This because the SLC must be up to the point where it attempts to talk to bootparamd before I can start a new one up. Anyone seen a fix for this? If so please forward any info to: manager@spool.mu.edu