From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 26 16:10:50 2005 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 7DE2C16A41F for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:10:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jmg@hydrogen.funkthat.com) Received: from hydrogen.funkthat.com (gate.funkthat.com [69.17.45.168]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07B9143D48 for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:10:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jmg@hydrogen.funkthat.com) Received: from hydrogen.funkthat.com (localhost.funkthat.com [127.0.0.1]) by hydrogen.funkthat.com (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j6QGAnd6088310; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 09:10:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmg@hydrogen.funkthat.com) Received: (from jmg@localhost) by hydrogen.funkthat.com (8.13.3/8.13.3/Submit) id j6QGAldG088309; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 09:10:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jmg) Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 09:10:47 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney To: Miles Nordin Message-ID: <20050726161047.GJ62369@funkthat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Miles Nordin , freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p1 i386 X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 EC EF F8 AE ED A7 31 96 7A 22 B3 D8 56 36 F4 X-Files: The truth is out there X-URL: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/ X-Resume: http://resnet.uoregon.edu/~gurney_j/resume.html Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: network boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: John-Mark Gurney List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 16:10:50 -0000 Miles Nordin wrote this message on Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 03:18 -0400: > Is there a way to netboot FreeBSD/sparc64? Yes, I did it a couple years ago, so I'm a bit hazy on the details... > I'm coming to FreeBSD from NetBSD, where I netboot NetBSD/sparc64 and > just about everything except PeeCees, so I already know how to set up > rarp, dhcp, tftp, NFS. Also I was able to cat the split FreeBSD > release chunks and untar them---I don't know if you're supposed to do > that, but I did it and poked around---so I have something like a root > filesystem and am able to read man pages. That's basicly what the install does for your.. :) > However I don't understand FreeBSD's booting process, and I don't see > where to get the second-stage loader binary to feed OpenPROM over > tftp, something like NetBSD's /usr/mdec/ofwboot.net. You should be able to use /boot/loader for that... (from your extracted bin.?? files) > Also something like the diskless(8) man page to explain how the > second-stage loader likes to load, on NetBSD the kernel but on FreeBSD > I guess it has to load a great many things like the several files that > make up the rest of the bootloader and kernel modules and whatever, > once I have the tftp second-stage loader how do I direct the booting > system to these other files? http://people.freebsd.org/~murray/sparc64/install.html Though it looks like you should use the /boot/loader instead of the one specified in the doc (since they don't exist anymore).. Hope the doc helps... -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 "All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not."