From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 3 15:24:04 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E25F16A41F for ; Tue, 3 Jan 2006 15:24:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from njriley@shrug.csl.uiuc.edu) Received: from shrug.csl.uiuc.edu (shrug.csl.uiuc.edu [130.126.137.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9B93843D45 for ; Tue, 3 Jan 2006 15:24:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from njriley@shrug.csl.uiuc.edu) Received: from shrug.csl.uiuc.edu (njriley@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by shrug.csl.uiuc.edu (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k03FO21b041983; Tue, 3 Jan 2006 09:24:02 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from njriley@shrug.csl.uiuc.edu) Received: (from njriley@localhost) by shrug.csl.uiuc.edu (8.13.4/8.12.11/Submit) id k03FO2tk041982; Tue, 3 Jan 2006 09:24:02 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from njriley) Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 09:24:02 -0600 From: Nicholas Riley To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060103152402.GB40204@uiuc.edu> References: <20060103013246.GB34161@uiuc.edu> <20060103142149.3311c15b@blackdog.umbrella.net> <20060103143746.GA40204@uiuc.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060103143746.GA40204@uiuc.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Subject: Re: NFS install writability on Netra t1 105 X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 15:24:04 -0000 On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 08:37:46AM -0600, Nicholas Riley wrote: > From looking at boot/loader.conf on the CD, it looks like I'm supposed > to get a MFS root, but instead I get a (read-only) NFS root. During > boot I do see this line: > > md0: Preloaded image 4194304 bytes at 0xc056435 > > and I was able to mount /dev/md0 after startup, but I can't figure out > how to get it to be used as a root device. I tried copying over the corresponding portions of the mfsroot to the CD-ROM, changing the NFS mount to read-write, and configuring the network manually, but sysinstall then tries to install on /, as if I were running it on an installed system. How do I get it to realize that I'm doing an initial install, and to mount the target media somewhere else? I've seen several reports of people actually using the FreeBSD installer on sparc64 (albeit in 5.x versions); is it supposed to work still? Thanks, -- Nicholas Riley |