From owner-freebsd-sparc Tue Apr 9 16:37: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from k6.locore.ca (k6.locore.ca [198.96.117.170]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A95C737B41C for ; Tue, 9 Apr 2002 16:36:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jake@localhost) by k6.locore.ca (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g39Ne0030790; Tue, 9 Apr 2002 19:40:00 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jake) Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 19:40:00 -0400 From: Jake Burkholder To: Udo Erdelhoff Cc: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Request for review: Restructuring of sparc installation guide Message-ID: <20020409194000.M199@locore.ca> References: <20020409045627.GO51146@nathan.ruhr.de> <20020409014108.I199@locore.ca> <20020409204219.GP51146@nathan.ruhr.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020409204219.GP51146@nathan.ruhr.de>; from ue@nathan.ruhr.de on Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 10:42:19PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Apparently, On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 10:42:19PM +0200, Udo Erdelhoff said words to the effect of; > Hi, > [keeping not really doc-related stuff to -sparc] > On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 01:41:08AM -0400, Jake Burkholder wrote: > > The kernel is called kernel-nfsroot.bz2 for netbooting. The iso > > is named by date and gets updated from time to time, so just pointing > > to the directory is probably ok; maybe add a note to get the latest one. > > which brings me to another point: I'm still trying to install 'my' > E450. The big problem is that I cannot use NFS during the installation > (political thing). According to the installation docs, the following > should be possible: > > a) slap CD-ROM with rootfs into the drive > b) go to console and type boot net > c) retrieve loader via tftp > d) have loader retrieve kernerl via tftp > e) mount fs from cd > > The problem I have is point d). As soon as the box has finished laoding > the loader, it starts to send packets to 255.255.255.255.rpc. This does > smell like NFS to me. > > Additionally, according to the docs, there should be a loader-tftp within > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/development/sparc64. The only loaders > I see are loader-nfs and loader-disk. > > Is it neccessary to change the docs and to deny that you can use tftp to > retrieve your kernel or can somebody cough up the loader-tftp? I can build you a loader with no nfs support, but the loader for net booting should work for loading the kernel from either nfs or tftp. I've done it before. What does your bootptab look like? You might try removing any nfs specific entries, like rp=. In any case, I put up a loader which just has tftp and network support here: http://people.freebsd.org/~jake/sparc64/loader-tftp.bz2 I don't have access to ftp-master but I can have someone copy this over if its works. Jake To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message