From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 19 22:06:29 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A547106566C for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2011 22:06:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jjheik@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ew0-f54.google.com (mail-ew0-f54.google.com [209.85.215.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EE768FC14 for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2011 22:06:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy24 with SMTP id 24so944934ewy.13 for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2011 14:06:28 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=01lp/VEO4U2WFnhPGqm8QsXNNBHVPHf0oHDus08pTwA=; b=sjaVTRJewiq8uKCjghJ5pvrbHLQWuYw3SX4mGgFITKgldAM7hGb11WMAc5tLRZqmlx 7kgrovZ05RHi5LoSBRsD4RIuO2GoU108fFefgSUdBylf9087xijtFlGyz0E054TnHYhQ lBiwqYdsFnRIQzD/F82NkVPE0xrXDmaEtkgVk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=pHMulX0vnxdqduVWJMWnd4RZGnUHd6tW+TCCGFiCu2/Fr9xAd3z5RIb6TML8p6FjAG hDYljgv5ACn1CVQZSDRl5CpV+u2evU6MaGCh+cdLJIP/X0VNe/jqlJp/7khlXtvsC/fu g47QqjqyXXIc3U+A/1ffwZNuTAHkT4uNjs5cg= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.213.35.209 with SMTP id q17mr1815496ebd.97.1295474788051; Wed, 19 Jan 2011 14:06:28 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.213.25.139 with HTTP; Wed, 19 Jan 2011 14:06:28 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20110119141903.GA2837@darkthrone.kvedulv.de> References: <20110119141903.GA2837@darkthrone.kvedulv.de> Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 17:06:28 -0500 Message-ID: From: Joel Heikkila To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Re: install via miniroot? X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 22:06:29 -0000 Hello all, I got it to work. I've been using Wireshark to try and dissect what's happening. The loader makes a number of NFS requests (I do not have NFS set up) which time out, making the booting process excruciatingly slow. Setting up NFS will cause it to boot much faster even if there's nothing to loaded via NFS. NFS is not really optional even though the loader pulls everything via TFTP. I've been following Craig Butler's post here for the most part. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-sparc64/2010-April/007175.html -- Joel Heikkila