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Date:      Tue, 7 Jan 2003 17:03:25 +0100
From:      Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To:        Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
Cc:        Rob B <rbyrnes@ozemail.com.au>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Netbooting Alpha
Message-ID:  <20030107170325.C76189@freebie.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <15898.58132.797659.705168@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>; from gallatin@cs.duke.edu on Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 09:24:20AM -0500
References:  <5.1.1.6.2.20030107134925.01d00880@127.0.0.1> <20030107134117.GB28476@cicely8.cicely.de> <15898.58132.797659.705168@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>

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On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 09:24:20AM -0500, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> 
> Bernd Walter writes:
>  > On Tue, Jan 07, 2003 at 01:53:23PM +1100, Rob B wrote:
>  > > I'm trying to get my little Multia to netboot and run -CURRENT 
>  > > diskless.  I've made a new kernel config and built it on the server by 
>  > > running
>  > > 
>  > > >make buildkernel KERNCONF=MULTIA
>  > > 
>  > > No problems there ... but where is the magic netbootable kernel?
>  > 
>  > To boot from network you need to setup some services.
> 
> In addition, I think you'll need
> 
>    options         BOOTP
>    options         BOOTP_NFSROOT
>    options         BOOTP_WIRED_TO=de0
> 
> Perhaps you already have these, and I'm missing some context..

And in some cases you have to make sure you have the right SRM console
firmware version. For some revs netbooting was broken.

W/

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