From owner-freebsd-sparc Mon Dec 2 13:17:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68ADC37B406 for ; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 13:17:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail14.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.214]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F52E43EC5 for ; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 13:17:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 6940 invoked from network); 2 Dec 2002 21:17:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO server.baldwin.cx) ([216.27.160.63]) (envelope-sender ) by mail14.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 2 Dec 2002 21:17:37 -0000 Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (gw1.twc.weather.com [216.133.140.1]) by server.baldwin.cx (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gB2LHSuH034692; Mon, 2 Dec 2002 16:17:29 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.5.2 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20021201142028.B26595@locore.ca> Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 16:17:36 -0500 (EST) From: John Baldwin To: Jake Burkholder Subject: Re: netbooting freebsd-sparc64 howto Cc: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG, Anthony Volodkin Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 <>< 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