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From: rees@dabo.ifs.umich.edu (Jim Rees)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: Boot error (can't get UID) from netboot - why?
Keywords: id, netboot, diskless
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Date: 7 Jun 90 16:31:52 GMT
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In article <1990Jun6.092223.24369@cns.umist.ac.uk>, ran@cns.umist.ac.uk
(Bob Nutter) writes:
> I've just spent a day and a half trying to get one of our 4000's to
> boot off a 3000 (as usual). Every time I got the same error:
> 
> 	(blah, blah, blah, bytes loaded...)
> 	81270001 Boot error: can't get UID

One thing that sometimes helps in these cases is to run netman in such a way
that you can read its error messages.  Kill it and just run it
(/sys/net/netman) in a window, for example.