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From: sjlai@broncho.ct.monash.edu.au
Subject: diskless and OSF/1 on DEC Alpha's
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Hi there,

Just a point which may save effort for those trying to boot a diskless
using a DEC Alpha as the server.  It doesn't work.

The problem seems to be caused by DEC's use of 32(?) bit major/minor
device numbers vs. FreeBSD's 16 bit versions.  This may be a problem
for other 64-bit OS's as well (haven't tried any others yet).

The solution for us was to use a FreeBSD machine as the server !!

cheers

simon