From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 16 12: 5: 5 1999 Received: from cerebus.nectar.com (nectar-gw.nectar.com [204.0.249.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA27303 for ; Tue, 16 Feb 1999 12:05:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nectar@nectar.com) Received: (from smap@localhost) by cerebus.nectar.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id OAA16877; Tue, 16 Feb 1999 14:04:57 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from nectar@nectar.com) Received: from spawn.nectar.com(10.0.0.101) by cerebus.nectar.com via smap (V2.1) id xma016875; Tue, 16 Feb 99 14:04:50 -0600 Received: from spawn.nectar.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spawn.nectar.com (8.9.2/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA73745; Tue, 16 Feb 1999 14:04:49 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from nectar@spawn.nectar.com) Message-Id: <199902162004.OAA73745@spawn.nectar.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 X-PGP-RSAfprint: 00 F9 E6 A2 C5 4D 0A 76 26 8B 8B 57 73 D0 DE EE X-PGP-RSAkey: http://www.nectar.com/nectar-pgp262.txt From: Jacques Vidrine In-reply-to: <199902161900.LAA77291@whistle.com> References: <199902161900.LAA77291@whistle.com> Subject: Re: Oskit and 3.0? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: Doug Ambrisko cc: julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer), freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 14:04:49 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a couple of diskless workstations here that I have been using a BOOTP kernel from floppy to get going, since the existing netboot doesn't support the xl driver. If this port works for me, I'll commit it and maintain it (pending a little feedback from the others on this thread who have said they'll test it). Thanks, Doug! Jacques Vidrine / n@nectar.com / nectar@FreeBSD.org On 16 February 1999 at 11:00, Doug Ambrisko wrote: > Julian Elischer writes: > | we netboot elf kernels and aout kernels here.. > | check with doug ambrisko (ambrisko@whistle.com) for his netbooting stuff. > > It would be nice if some commiter would commit pr: > [1999/01/13] ports/9480 ports ELF kernel netboot > > I know one person is using is using it besides me. Note that since then we > have found 2 bugs in it. One is that in my patches I forgot and > init_serial in main and used option 131 for boot how to which was used > for swap options. If someone lets me know if they are going to commit > it then I will send them the patches. > > It is better then nothing and they support more cards then FreeBSD netboot. > > That OSKit looks interesting. > > BTW here is another data point for bootp/tftp kernel booting, iMac and > other open firmware Mac's boot via bootp/tftp. > > Doug A. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message