From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 23 23:56:05 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E11A38E for ; Fri, 23 Nov 2012 23:56:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kayasaman@gmail.com) Received: from mail-wg0-f50.google.com (mail-wg0-f50.google.com [74.125.82.50]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE5E28FC0C for ; Fri, 23 Nov 2012 23:56:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-wg0-f50.google.com with SMTP id 12so4859474wgr.31 for ; Fri, 23 Nov 2012 15:56:03 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=ktGj6JgtNgovCerKWrCA2ZEt3LIS5QiVP5LJVmpu+qA=; b=itjtR0SPdPJwdae+wN1ADtgP4DSs3IppIBINRsCREwJqtqpjugfXvR1ZFrQWMNyHEB yD6VheaBTnVWRpWOVRlfjHURRbHR8LAOQKmj8TORLvhQ8RUk9paagf6WZobtkRGxyrIE VqE0Gww/TwqpkO573CUtq9Yk/Wpa/oCQZfkyYbcOKeoptf4kOyONxYu6yYUKaaXl9sKV rhZs/2JF1Lv7xbK7E0fFa7GbDRyiIWGQCO8unEBduZNn4iSyKEfz0vQP9k3R+Ch9udqI 9alBck9mMAtSt1rZqQGhHcSV52QButu0v9G/OHa8QggBSymAwg+lTdeMOOSOMkZaNDR9 rg5A== Received: by 10.180.72.232 with SMTP id g8mr11960339wiv.0.1353714963443; Fri, 23 Nov 2012 15:56:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from X220.optiplex-networks.com (81-178-2-118.dsl.pipex.com. [81.178.2.118]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id gk9sm10628804wib.4.2012.11.23.15.56.01 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 23 Nov 2012 15:56:02 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <50B00D10.10201@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 23:56:00 +0000 From: Kaya Saman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120911 Thunderbird/15.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Net Booting FreeBSD Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2012 23:56:05 -0000 Hi, I've been through the Handbook and Google however, it seems that there isn't anywhere that has a guide to net boot FreeBSD on Sun SPARC systems. I have a Sun Fire V210 and would like to install FreeBSD 9 onto it. I'm using Fedora 17 32-bit as a boot server, and so far I have: setup raprd, bootparamd, tftpd, and nfsd (simple Solaris/OpenBSD/Debian (have recently installed them using this technique) boot setup) Where I am stuck is the tftp and nfs setup. Having recently jumpstarted OpenBSD I did a similar thing, I'm going to bypass rarpd as I'm able to get an IP address so there's no issue there (logs confirm): I put the "loader" file into the /tftpboot directory and symlinked the HEX of the IP address to it. It seems however that this isn't the correct file and unfortunately I am stuck as to where to find it? As for the rest.... I have mounted the freebsd-9.0-current-disk1.iso into a directory called /iso and exported this via NFS. The configuration for /etc/bootparams is basically to use the /iso/ dir as root for the install. Could someone help me figuring out the file that should be placed in /tftpboot?? Regards, Kaya