Greetings,
I like having Mac OS 9 available via NetBoot so that if I rescue a Macintosh with a faulty optical drive I can start from the network and run the Mac OS 9 installer from a disk image which all works perfectly from Mac OS X Server 10.4; however I want to use a virtual machine instead of an electricity hungry Power Mac and I have a working Mac OS X Server 10.5.8 VM in Parallels Desktop Pro running as a process with the bridged Ethernet option. My Leopard server VM provides AFP shares to Mac OS 9 clients perfectly but the last hurdle to repurposing my Power Mac is to get Apple's NetBoot9 image working from the Leopard server.
I was curious if anybody here had got NetBoot9 working with Leopard Server.
Below is the NetBoot service log:
Feb 17 23:09:00 leopard bootpd[355]: server starting
Feb 17 23:09:00 leopard bootpd[355]: re-reading /etc/bootptab
Feb 17 23:09:00 leopard bootpd[355]: Loaded 0 entries from bootptab (0 bad)
Feb 17 23:09:00 leopard bootpd[355]: server name leopard.flying-machine.net
Feb 17 23:09:00 leopard bootpd[355]: interface en0: ip 10.0.1.105 mask 255.255.255.0
Feb 17 23:09:00 leopard bootpd[355]: bsdpd: re-reading configuration
Feb 17 23:09:00 leopard bootpd[355]: bsdpd: shadow file size will be set to 48 megabytes
Feb 17 23:09:00 leopard bootpd[355]: bsdpd: age time 00:15:00
Feb 17 23:09:00 leopard bootpd[355]: NetBoot: parse vendor specific options failed, missing vendor specific options
Feb 17 23:09:00 leopard bootpd[355]: service time 0.000186 seconds
Feb 17 23:09:05 leopard bootpd[355]: BSDP INFORM [en0] 1,0:3:93:71:94:a8 NetBoot001 arch=ppc sysid=PowerBook3,4
Feb 17 23:09:05 leopard bootpd[355]: NetBoot: [1,0:3:93:71:94:a8] BSDP ACK
sent 10.0.1.49 pktsize 300
Feb 17 23:09:05 leopard bootpd[355]: service time 0.000584 seconds
Feb 17 23:09:05 leopard bootpd[355]: BSDP INFORM
[en0] 1,0:3:93:71:94:a8 NetBoot001 arch=ppc sysid=PowerBook3,4
Feb 17 23:09:05 leopard bootpd[355]: replyfile /private/tftpboot/NetBoot/NetBootSP0/MacOS92Default.nbi/Mac OS ROM
Feb 17 23:09:05 leopard bootpd[355]: NetBoot: [1,0:3:93:71:94:a8] BSDP ACK[SELECT] sent 10.0.1.49 pktsize 474
Feb 17 23:09:05 leopard bootpd[355]: service time 0.113371 seconds
I am using MacOS92Default.nbi folder which I copied from the Tiger server and I cannot get it to boot from Leopard server. My theory is that there might be an incompatibility with AFP 3.2 and AFP 3.2+(version running with Leopard). If anybody knows how to get this working I'd be most grateful.[/list]