From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Aug 17 15:19:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9732714E85 for ; Tue, 17 Aug 1999 15:19:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA23962; Tue, 17 Aug 1999 18:19:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id SAA76587; Tue, 17 Aug 1999 18:19:57 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1999 18:19:56 -0400 (EDT) To: "David E. Cross" Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: netboot on a multia system In-Reply-To: <199908172154.RAA61009@cs.rpi.edu> References: <199908172154.RAA61009@cs.rpi.edu> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14265.56842.680302.912352@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org David E. Cross writes: > I picked up one of those "free" multia systems. I am having > some difficulty in getting it to netboot. The problem that I have is > that it tftp's the boot file, prints some stuff on the screen, and then > almost immediately reboots. the Ethernet adapter in the machine is > referred to as "ewa0" any ideas? > I don't have a multia, so I'll just give you a stab in the dark... there might be problems with your firmware. I seem to remember that NetBSD has problems netbooting on this platform with newer firmware revs. Try using a serial console on it so you can read the message. Since the TGA is not yet supported as a console device, you'll probably want a serial console anyway. Drew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message