Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 22:30:54 -0700 From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org> To: Chris Csanady <cc@137.org> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Netbooting.. Message-ID: <20000219223054.B82975@panzer.kdm.org> In-Reply-To: <38AF79AE.15C1FE6E@ameslab.gov>; from cc@137.org on Sat, Feb 19, 2000 at 11:20:46PM -0600 References: <38AB2424.C4C9D80D@ameslab.gov> <20000219193644.A81810@panzer.kdm.org> <38AF79AE.15C1FE6E@ameslab.gov>
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On Sat, Feb 19, 2000 at 23:20:46 -0600, Chris Csanady wrote: > "Kenneth D. Merry" wrote: > > FWIW, I'm having similar problems with a DEC3000/300 box I'm trying to > > netboot. (It took me a while to figure out that I had to boot "ez0" > > instead of "esa0" to get bootp instead of MOP.) [ ... ] > > I may try to track this down tomorrow. It seems like it should be > > solveable. BTW, I'm running with -current as of ~February 12th, I think, > > and I'm netbooting (bootp, tftp and NFS) off a FreeBSD/alpha box. > > Do you have the bootp options in your kernel? Drew pointed out that > I need these as well as the NFS_ROOT option in my kernel. > > options BOOTP # Use BOOTP to obtain IP address/hostname > options BOOTP_NFSROOT # NFS mount root filesystem using BOOTP info > options BOOTP_NFSV3 # Use NFS v3 to NFS mount root > options BOOTP_COMPAT # Workaround for broken bootp daemons. > options BOOTP_WIRED_TO=dc0 # Use interface fxp0 for BOOTP Oops, no, I don't have those. It makes sense that I would need them, though. :) > Also, it turned out that dc0 does not autodetect the media correctly on my > boxes. If you have xp1000's, you will probably need the included patches. Nah, this is a fairly old box with a 10BaseT-only Lance ethernet interface. I haven't had any trouble with the dc0 driver detecting the media on a 433au box. Although I do have the media type hard-coded in SRM, I think. What patches are you talking about? > Aside from the Irix 6.5.4 nfs server, things work fine. I can panic it > consistently with a make world though, even if /usr/obj is local.. Cool, thanks. I'll give those options a whirl tomorrow. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@kdm.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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