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From: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@ambrisko.com>
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Subject: Re: booting -current with etherboot?
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To: Nicolas Souchu <nsouch@fr.alcove.com>
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 13:06:30 -0800 (PST)
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Nicolas Souchu writes:
| etherboot-5.0.3 doesn't boot my -current kernel.
| 
| I previously had to upgrade the loader because of a similar problem when
| booting a -current kernel with a -stable loader.
| 
| What are exactly the differences? Etherboot boots a -stable kernel just fine.

I'm using both 5.0.3 & just tried 5.0.4 and both work.  Remember that
you need to compile in the hints into the kernel.  I just verified
this netbooting FreeBSD inside vmware.

  # uname -a
  FreeBSD  5.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #1: Sat Dec 29 20:24:00 GMT 2001     ambrisko@a21p:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/NETBOOT  i386
  # mount
  192.168.254.1:/data/home/ambrisko/netboot on / (nfs)
  devfs on /dev (devfs, local)
  # swapinfo
  Device          512-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Type
  [NFS swap]          130816        0   130816     0%    Interleaved
  # 

In my kernel config I have:
  #To statically compile in device wiring instead of /boot/device.hints
  hints           "NETBOOT.hints"         #Default places to look for devices.
	
My NETBOOT.hints is basically a copy of GENERIC.hints.

Doug A.

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