Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 22:27:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Paul Mauvais <pmauvais@cisco.com> Cc: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Trying to get it to just boot :-) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0204162226360.81355-100000@beppo> In-Reply-To: <Pine.HPX.4.44.0204162158010.9887-100000@franklin.cisco.com>
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You need an NFSroot kernel. One's available at, I believe, http://people.freebsd.org/~jake/sparc64 On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Paul Mauvais wrote: > OK, I'm not that bad at reading directions, but I've done something wrong > :-)...and I am new to the SPARC FreeBSD stuff.... > > I've setup (via dhcp) a boot/nfs server to boot an Ultra5 off of the BSD > loader/kernel: > > host zort { > hardware ethernet 08:00:20:a7:76:2b; > option host-name "zort.cisco.com"; > fixed-address 1.1.1.2; > always-reply-rfc1048 on; > next-server 1.1.1.5; > filename "kernel-bsd"; > option root-path "1.1.1.5:/tftpboot/bsd"; > } > > The machine finds the tftp loader and boots OK, then finds and loads the > kernel OK, but then after the normal boot messages I get the following: > > ... > ad0: 8693MB <ST39140A> [17662/16/63] at ata2-master WDMA2 > acd0: CDROM <CRD-8322B> at ata3-master PIO4 > > Manual root filesystem specification: > <fstype>:<device> Mount <device> using filesystem <fstype> > eg. ufs:da0a > ? List valid disk boot devices > <empty line> Abort manual input > > mountroot> ? > > --- > I thought my dhcp definitions above would tell it where to find the nfs > root so I could boot and then label the disks/etc. I have the distrib > tarball unpacked in the /tftpboot/bsd directory as mentioned in the > definitions above. Nothing I try does much at this point (except > sometimes dump me into the debugger). > > Do I need something else? Easier to boot off the ISO? :-) > > Paul > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message
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