From owner-freebsd-install Mon Feb 14 19:46: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-install@freebsd.org Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (zippy.cdrom.com [204.216.27.228]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B2834027; Mon, 14 Feb 2000 19:46:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from zippy.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by zippy.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA31052; Mon, 14 Feb 2000 19:45:04 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com) To: Joerg Wunsch Cc: "Chinasee B." , "'install@FreeBSD.ORG'" , postmaster@FreeBSD.ORG, jkh@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 3.4 make netboot problem In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 14 Feb 2000 22:37:22 +0100." <20000214223722.J793@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 19:45:04 -0800 Message-ID: <31049.950586304@zippy.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-install@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I'm happy to see it die. > (I think the freebsd-install list needs to be killed. It was intended > to be used for people working at the install programs, but most if not > all of them left, and some people notoriously seem to confuse the list > with questions@freebsd.org. Jordan, any objections?) > > As Chinasee B. wrote: > > > cc -O2 -DNFS -DROMSIZE=16384 -DRELOC=0x90000 -DPCI -DPCI_VENDOR=0x10ec > > -DPCI_DEVICE=0x8029 -DPCI_CLASS=0x02,0x00,0x00 -DASK_BOOT -aout > > -I/usr/src/sys/i386/boot/netboot/../../.. -I/usr/src/sys/i386/boot/netboot > > -DROMSIZE=16384 -static -o makerom > > /usr/src/sys/i386/boot/netboot/makerom.c > > ld: scrt0.o: No such file or directory > > *** Error code 1 > > Sorry, the old /sys/i386/boot/netboot/ is currently not supported at > all. It'll only be able to load a.out kernels anyway (wich are > deprecated by now), and it requires some older a.out parts of the > toolchain which are only available to people who gradually upgraded > their systems from old a.out systems but which are no longer available > for freshly installed systems, not even in situations where the a.out > `compat' distributions have been installed. > > I think there's a more recent version of network booting available > from the ports collection, but the actual name escaped me for the > moment. > > -- > cheers, J"org 73 de DL8DTL > > joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ > Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-install" in the body of the message