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From: sunj@unc.cs.unc.edu (John Sun)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: problems with booting a client
Keywords: SunOS
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Date: 7 Apr 89 16:30:57 GMT
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X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 229, message 15 of 15

I am having a problem booting a SUN 3/180 as a client off of a SUN 3/60
server.  The SUN 3/60 is running 3.5.

At the moniter prompt on the 3/180, I gave the command:

        >b ie()vmunix

I then see that the 3/180 (the client) has begun booting off the 3/60 (the
client) i.e. the client successfully downloads the tftpboot program and
appears to be booting vmunix.  At this point, I get the following error
message:

        panic: rootmount cannot mount root

Does anybody out there have any idea how to fix this problem or what the
problem is?  Any advice is desparetly needed and appreciated.

                                John Sun
                                North Carolina Memorial Hospital
                                sunj@dopey.cs.unc.edu