From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Dec 26 9:35:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1873D15218; Sun, 26 Dec 1999 09:35:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from salmon.nlsystems.com (salmon.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.3]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA72394; Sun, 26 Dec 1999 17:46:28 GMT (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Sun, 26 Dec 1999 17:46:27 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: Mike Smith Cc: Wilko Bulte , FreeBSD-alpha mailing list Subject: Re: diskless boot on Alpha In-Reply-To: <199912242014.MAA10876@mass.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 24 Dec 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > > I'm puzzled.. > > > > NB as the code tells me to use 'loader', how do I set > > that up on Alpha? I still need to bootp netboot right? > > netboot is the loader, it just has the wrong name. One of these days > they'll all coalesce back into a single binary. Tricky. The main differences between netboot and loader (apart from the default fs) is the link address. Since loader is a second stage boot and netboot is a first stage, they are linked at different addresses. I think netboot and cdboot would be easier to merge. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message