From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jan 20 20:24:20 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.watson.org [204.156.12.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A92C837B416 for ; Sun, 20 Jan 2002 20:24:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from fledge.watson.org (fledge.pr.watson.org [192.0.2.3]) by fledge.watson.org (8.11.6/8.11.5) with SMTP id g0L4O7D62316; Sun, 20 Jan 2002 23:24:08 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from robert@fledge.watson.org) Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2002 23:24:07 -0500 (EST) From: Robert Watson X-Sender: robert@fledge.watson.org To: Glenn Gombert Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "Current & Etherboot" In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20020120182001.00dab7b8@imatowns.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Most people I know of that netboot boxes on Intel platforms now use PXE. With PXE config, the pxe loader has full access to the NFS-mounted /boot directory, so there's no reason to compile in the hints. Robert N M Watson FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Project robert@fledge.watson.org NAI Labs, Safeport Network Services On Sun, 20 Jan 2002, Glenn Gombert wrote: > etherboot runs fine on Current, all that is required if to have the > 'device.hints' statically compiled into the kernel you are trying to boot: > > #To statically compile in device wiring instead of /boot/device.hints > hints "NETBOOT.hints" #Default places to look for devices. > > > bit strange that the 'regulars' on the list didn't seem to know about this > ... > Glenn Gombert > ggombert@imatowns.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message