From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 26 07:18:15 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65C5E16A41F for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 07:18:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from carton@Ivy.NET) Received: from sakima.Ivy.NET (sakima.Ivy.NET [69.31.131.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D55A143D49 for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 07:18:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from carton@Ivy.NET) Received: from castrovalva.Ivy.NET (castrovalva.Ivy.NET [IPv6:2001:4830:2150:c0::3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by sakima.Ivy.NET (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8F702F89F for ; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 03:18:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: by castrovalva.Ivy.NET (Postfix, from userid 405) id B752C12FB02; Tue, 26 Jul 2005 03:18:12 -0400 (EDT) To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org From: Miles Nordin MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="pgp-sign-Multipart_Tue_Jul_26_03:18:11_2005-1"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 03:18:12 -0400 Message-ID: User-Agent: T-gnus/6.17.2 (based on No Gnus v0.2) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.6 (Marutamachi) APEL/10.6 Emacs/21.3 (alpha--netbsd) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) Subject: network boot 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: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 07:18:15 -0000 --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--