While attempting to network boot my Asus EEE with its lii(4) wired ethernet, I get an error and panic when it attempts to boot via nfs_boot.
When I hook the network cable up to a switch to watch the link, it stays on until the kernel boots, then goes off during the devices detection, then goes back on briefly, then turns off before it tries to do the nfs_mount root. Thinking it could be a slow PHY, I modified line 1020 in netinet/if_ether.c to read: result = tsleep((caddr_t)&myip, PSOCK, "revarp", hz*20); However, all this did was make the kernel wait forever at the "nfs_boot:" line. I watched for link light again, and it stayed off almost the whole time, flickered for about quarter of a second, then went out again. For comparison, I hooked up another laptop (an Acer TravelMate with a bce(4) ethernet device) and attempted to boot diskless with it with the same kernel and config (except for changing the MAC address in /etc/ethers and dhcpd.conf) and it worked fine. I'm thinking it could have something to do with the lii(4) driver. Attached is the panic with trace and ps as well as a dmesg of the machine when it boots normally (with the kernel on a USB stick.) Tom PXE boot MAC address 00:22:15:14:89:d6, interface lii0 nfs_boot: using interface lii0, with revarp & bootparams panic: reverse arp not answered by rarpd(8) or dhcpd(8) Stopped at Debugger+0x4: popl %ebp RUN AT LEAST 'trace' AND 'ps' AND INCLUDE OUTPUT WHEN REPORTING THIS PANIC! DO NOT EVEN BOTHER REPORTING WITHOUT INCLUDING THAT INFORMATION! ddb> trace Debugger(d08dea35,d0ba3cd4,d08d2434.d0ba3cd4,d156a094) at Debugger+0x4 panic(d08d2434,d156a094,d0ba3d18,d0a2f500,746f6f) at panic+0x5d nfs_boot_init(d0ba3df0,d0a2f500,128,d03ec0f9,a) at nfs_boot_init+0x3ca nfs_mountroot(d08b4257,0,d08b9faa,0,0) at nfs_mountroot+0x4c main(d02004ba,d02004c2,0,0,0) at main+0x57b ddb> ps PID PPID PGRP UID S FLAGS WAIT COMMAND 10 0 0 0 3 0x100200 bored crypto 9 0 0 0 3 0x100200 pftm pfpurge 8 0 0 0 3 0x100200 usbtsk usbtask 7 0 0 0 3 0x100200 usbatsk usbatsk 6 0 0 0 3 0x100200 bored intelrel 5 0 0 0 3 0x100200 acpi0 acpi0 4 0 0 0 3 0x100200 bored syswq 3 0 0 0 3 0x100200 idle0 2 0 0 0 3 0x40100200 kmalloc kmthread 1 0 0 0 3 0x100200 initexec swapper * 0 -1 0 0 7 0x80200 swapper OpenBSD 4.9-current (GENERIC) #0: Thu Apr 28 21:01:49 BST 2011 r...@jera.pertho.net:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC cpu0: Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor 900MHz ("GenuineIntel" 686-class) 631 MHz cpu0: FPU,V86,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,CFLUSH,DS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,TM,SBF real mem = 527527936 (503MB) avail mem = 508755968 (485MB) mainbus0 at root bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+ BIOS, date 03/11/09, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xf0010, SMBIOS rev. 2.5 @ 0xf06e0 (37 entries) bios0: vendor American Megatrends Inc. version "1302" date 03/11/2009 bios0: ASUSTeK Computer INC. 701 acpi0 at bios0: rev 0 acpi0: sleep states S0 S3 S4 S5 acpi0: tables DSDT FACP APIC OEMB MCFG acpi0: wakeup devices P0P3(S4) P0P4(S4) P0P5(S4) P0P6(S4) P0P7(S4) MC97(S4) USB1(S3) USB2(S3) USB3(S3) USB4(S3) EUSB(S3) acpitimer0 at acpi0: 3579545 Hz, 24 bits acpimadt0 at acpi0 addr 0xfee00000: PC-AT compat cpu0 at mainbus0: apid 0 (boot processor) cpu0: apic clock running at 70MHz ioapic0 at mainbus0: apid 1 pa 0xfec00000, version 20, 24 pins acpimcfg0 at acpi0 addr 0xe0000000, bus 0-255 acpiprt0 at acpi0: bus 0 (PCI0) acpiprt1 at acpi0: bus 5 (P0P3) acpiprt2 at acpi0: bus 3 (P0P5) acpiprt3 at acpi0: bus 1 (P0P6) acpiec0 at acpi0 acpicpu0 at acpi0: C3, C2 acpitz0 at acpi0: critical temperature 90 degC acpibat0 at acpi0: BAT0 model "701" serial type LION oem "ASUS" acpiac0 at acpi0: AC unit online acpiasus0 at acpi0 acpibtn0 at acpi0: LID_ acpibtn1 at acpi0: SLPB acpibtn2 at acpi0: PWRB acpivideo0 at acpi0: VGA_ bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0xf800! 0xcf800/0x1000 pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (bios) pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "Intel 82915GM Host" rev 0x04 vga1 at pci0 dev 2 function 0 "Intel 82915GM Video" rev 0x04 wsdisplay0 at vga1 mux 1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation) wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation) intagp0 at vga1 agp0 at intagp0: aperture at 0xd0000000, size 0x10000000 inteldrm0 at vga1: apic 1 int 16 drm0 at inteldrm0 "Intel 82915GM Video" rev 0x04 at pci0 dev 2 function 1 not configured azalia0 at pci0 dev 27 function 0 "Intel 82801FB HD Audio" rev 0x04: apic 1 int 16 azalia0: codecs: Realtek ALC662 audio0 at azalia0 ppb0 at pci0 dev 28 function 0 "Intel 82801FB PCIE" rev 0x04: apic 1 int 16 pci1 at ppb0 bus 4 ppb1 at pci0 dev 28 function 1 "Intel 82801FB PCIE" rev 0x04: apic 1 int 17 pci2 at ppb1 bus 3 lii0 at pci2 dev 0 function 0 "Attansic Technology L2" rev 0xa0: apic 1 int 17, address 00:22:15:14:89:d6 atphy0 at lii0 phy 1: F2 10/100 PHY, rev. 2 ppb2 at pci0 dev 28 function 2 "Intel 82801FB PCIE" rev 0x04: apic 1 int 18 pci3 at ppb2 bus 1 ath0 at pci3 dev 0 function 0 "Atheros AR5424" rev 0x01: apic 1 int 18 ath0: AR5424 14.2 phy 7.0 rf 0.0, WOR0W, address 00:15:af:b5:36:7f uhci0 at pci0 dev 29 function 0 "Intel 82801FB USB" rev 0x04: apic 1 int 23 uhci1 at pci0 dev 29 function 1 "Intel 82801FB USB" rev 0x04: apic 1 int 19 uhci2 at pci0 dev 29 function 2 "Intel 82801FB USB" rev 0x04: apic 1 int 18 uhci3 at pci0 dev 29 function 3 "Intel 82801FB USB" rev 0x04: apic 1 int 16 ehci0 at pci0 dev 29 function 7 "Intel 82801FB USB" rev 0x04: apic 1 int 23 usb0 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0 uhub0 at usb0 "Intel EHCI root hub" rev 2.00/1.00 addr 1 ppb3 at pci0 dev 30 function 0 "Intel 82801BAM Hub-to-PCI" rev 0xd4 pci4 at ppb3 bus 5 ichpcib0 at pci0 dev 31 function 0 "Intel 82801FBM LPC" rev 0x04: PM disabled pciide0 at pci0 dev 31 function 2 "Intel 82801FBM SATA" rev 0x04: DMA, channel 0 wired to compatibility, channel 1 wired to compatibility wd0 at pciide0 channel 1 drive 0: <SILICONMOTION SM223AC> wd0: 1-sector PIO, LBA, 3815MB, 7815024 sectors wd0(pciide0:1:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 4 ichiic0 at pci0 dev 31 function 3 "Intel 82801FB SMBus" rev 0x04: apic 1 int 19 iic0 at ichiic0 spdmem0 at iic0 addr 0x50: 512MB DDR2 SDRAM non-parity PC2-3200CL3 SO-DIMM usb1 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0 uhub1 at usb1 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 usb2 at uhci1: USB revision 1.0 uhub2 at usb2 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 usb3 at uhci2: USB revision 1.0 uhub3 at usb3 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 usb4 at uhci3: USB revision 1.0 uhub4 at usb4 "Intel UHCI root hub" rev 1.00/1.00 addr 1 isa0 at ichpcib0 isadma0 at isa0 pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5 pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot) pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0 pms0 at pckbc0 (aux slot) pckbc0: using irq 12 for aux slot wsmouse0 at pms0 mux 0 pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61 spkr0 at pcppi0 npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: reported by CPUID; using exception 16 mtrr: Pentium Pro MTRR support umass0 at uhub0 port 3 configuration 1 interface 0 "SanDisk U3 Cruzer Micro" rev 2.00/2.00 addr 2 umass0: using SCSI over Bulk-Only scsibus0 at umass0: 2 targets, initiator 0 sd0 at scsibus0 targ 1 lun 0: <SanDisk, U3 Cruzer Micro, 8.02> SCSI0 0/direct removable serial.078154065009F6903265 sd0: 3863MB, 512 bytes/sec, 7913471 sec total uvideo0 at uhub0 port 8 configuration 1 interface 0 "eMPIA Technology EeePC701 camera" rev 2.00/12.12 addr 2 video0 at uvideo0 vscsi0 at root scsibus0 at vscsi0: 256 targets softraid0 at root root on sd0a swap on sd0b dump on sd0b ath0: unable to reset hardware; hal status 3651705500 ath0: unable to reset hardware; hal status 3651706236