Sun/SGI boot interference

[Phil Dykstra]

We have experienced the "Sun booting problem" as well.  Many versions
of bootparamd answer requests even if they have no file systems for
the requesting machine.  This causes a race condition where a SunOS 4.x
machine will try to mount file systems from the first machine to answer
its broadcast bootparam request.  We commented out bootparm in
/usr/etc/inetd.conf on all of our SGI's.  All versions of Irix 3.2
seem to have this problem [as well as some other computers like the
TI Lisp Machines].  Irix 3.3 may have fixed it - I don't know.

We did not have to do anything involving bootp.

- Phil