Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 03:18:12 -0400 From: Miles Nordin <carton@Ivy.NET> To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: network boot Message-ID: <oqll3uox1n.fsf@castrovalva.Ivy.NET>
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--pgp-sign-Multipart_Tue_Jul_26_03:18:11_2005-1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Is there a way to netboot FreeBSD/sparc64? I'm coming to FreeBSD from NetBSD, where I netboot NetBSD/sparc64 and just about everything except PeeCees, so I already know how to set up rarp, dhcp, tftp, NFS. Also I was able to cat the split FreeBSD release chunks and untar them---I don't know if you're supposed to do that, but I did it and poked around---so I have something like a root filesystem and am able to read man pages. However I don't understand FreeBSD's booting process, and I don't see where to get the second-stage loader binary to feed OpenPROM over tftp, something like NetBSD's /usr/mdec/ofwboot.net. Also something like the diskless(8) man page to explain how the second-stage loader likes to load, on NetBSD the kernel but on FreeBSD I guess it has to load a great many things like the several files that make up the rest of the bootloader and kernel modules and whatever, once I have the tftp second-stage loader how do I direct the booting system to these other files? --pgp-sign-Multipart_Tue_Jul_26_03:18:11_2005-1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (NetBSD) iQCVAwUAQuXjtInCBbTaW/4dAQLOkgP+IsO456rOaZUSYRtKPWjhk/IiKJtGki8w ZGCWUZuO3HU0mMCiS5gQYaOSwR5XRXy/LoKnlyn+Ro8e/VW5C2SA0i9Q7kfVKXFF SnDw+pOq3zuXpZv0LtX0OfAwqgvJjrVn2OzSYFmjse4OlAnf4WHHVmKLBjjRGLmg XTIH91JDTxM= =Y1hU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --pgp-sign-Multipart_Tue_Jul_26_03:18:11_2005-1--
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