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To: Paul Mauvais <pmauvais@cisco.com>
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Subject: Re: Trying to get it to just boot :-)
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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
> 
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