Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 21:59:36 +0000 From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> To: Nicholas Riley <njriley@uiuc.edu> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NFS install writability on Netra t1 105 Message-ID: <20060111215936.GA1929@photon.meadownet> In-Reply-To: <20060103152402.GB40204@uiuc.edu> References: <20060103013246.GB34161@uiuc.edu> <20060103142149.3311c15b@blackdog.umbrella.net> <20060103143746.GA40204@uiuc.edu> <20060103152402.GB40204@uiuc.edu>
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--UlVJffcvxoiEqYs2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 09:24:02AM -0600, Nicholas Riley wrote: > On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 08:37:46AM -0600, Nicholas Riley wrote: > > From looking at boot/loader.conf on the CD, it looks like I'm supposed > > to get a MFS root, but instead I get a (read-only) NFS root. During > > boot I do see this line: > >=20 > > md0: Preloaded image </boot/mfsroot> 4194304 bytes at 0xc056435 > >=20 > > and I was able to mount /dev/md0 after startup, but I can't figure out > > how to get it to be used as a root device. >=20 > I tried copying over the corresponding portions of the mfsroot to the > CD-ROM, changing the NFS mount to read-write, and configuring the > network manually, but sysinstall then tries to install on /, as if I > were running it on an installed system. How do I get it to realize > that I'm doing an initial install, and to mount the target media > somewhere else? >=20 > I've seen several reports of people actually using the FreeBSD > installer on sparc64 (albeit in 5.x versions); is it supposed to work > still? > I've been struggling with exactly the same issues over the past few days, but have just managed to get sysinstall running correctly over NFS from my U5 to a i386 laptop. I think I was following some outdated instructions; when I started from scratch with the instructions at=20 http://gja.space4me.com/things/Using_pxeboot_Install53.html I had no problems whatsoever installing 6.0-RELEASE. -- Bruce Cran --UlVJffcvxoiEqYs2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDxX/Hn4uvqcJsLfgRAgMCAJwMYRmyrHEUw4r9G1EyGMh6+23zlQCePmgc nLNOwclAN8mUNYYBRmhCXwQ= =5J/Y -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --UlVJffcvxoiEqYs2--
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