I was able to fix the problem shortly after sending out question.
Answer: empty the bootparams map.
Just use bootparams as a local file, not a map. Works great now.
-- Laura
> I am trying to jump-start a client from a 2.4 jump-start server.
>
> The problem is that I can't get bootparamd to answer the client,
> and thus the client gets RPC: Timed out
> No bootparam (whoami) server responding; still trying...
>
> I know that the server is seeing the clients requests because I
> can see them in snoop, and also, rarpd from the server returns the
> correct IP address. So the tftpboot link is good.
>
> The bootparams file appears to look fine...it looks like this:
>
> rake.bbn.com root=hootowl.bbn.com:/export/install/export/exec/kvm/sparc.sun4c.Solaris_2.4 install=hootowl.bbn.com:/export/install/config install_config=hootowl.bbn.com:/export/install/config
>
> ...where rake is the client, and hootowl is the server.
>
> I've trying doing the obvious things like starting up bootparamd in debug mode using
> the -d switch, but that is giving me nothing useful.
>
> I could suspect network problems, but since snoop on the server shows the requests
> can be seen, I don't think it's the network. I have make a yp bootparams map using
> the above entry.
>
> I have the latest kernel patch and NIS patch installed.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> -- Laura
>
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