Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 16:17:36 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Jake Burkholder <jake@locore.ca> Cc: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG, Anthony Volodkin <anthonyv@brainlink.com> Subject: Re: netbooting freebsd-sparc64 howto Message-ID: <XFMail.20021202161736.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20021201142028.B26595@locore.ca>
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On 01-Dec-2002 Jake Burkholder wrote: > Apparently, On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 03:00:41AM -0500, > Anthony Volodkin said words to the effect of; > >> Hi >> >> After last night of hacking netbooting with nfsroot, I wrote the >> following howto: http://non-standard.net/freebsd/sparc64-nfsroot.html >> Any comments or corrections are appreciated. > > Hi, > > Thanks for making the effort to put this together. > > Comments: > > Your dhcp setup looks correct, that's basically what I use. > > I don't think that tftp is required if you use 'boot net:dhcp', as far as > I know the firmware will use bootp to retrieve the bootstrap in this case. > 'boot net' alone will use tftp. Also, the loader.nfs isn't necessary > anymore; the default loader does nfs and tftp, so you can just copy > it from the unpacked distribution or from the cross built world. > i.e: cp /path/to/nfsroot/boot/loader /tftpboot. I just noticed that > you didn't setup the symlinks to the ethernet address for tftp, so > boot net:dhcp must be using bootp. If tftp is to be used the ethernet > address for the sparc must appear in /etc/ethers, and a symlink needs > to be made to its ip address in hex. boot net:dhcp should probably be > recommended as its simpler. You still need tftp for boot net:dhcp. bootp just provides a filename and machine to download from, it doesn't actually transfer files. The firmware uses tftp to grab a particular file from the specified machine. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message
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