From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Jul 22 16:40:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5981637B400 for ; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 16:40:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from canning.wemm.org (canning.wemm.org [192.203.228.65]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CDE943E31 for ; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 16:40:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from fw.wemm.org (canning.wemm.org [192.203.228.65]) by canning.wemm.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7F2D2A7D6 for ; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 16:40:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from overcee.wemm.org (overcee.wemm.org [10.0.0.3]) by fw.wemm.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC4054C279 for ; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 16:40:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wemm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by overcee.wemm.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0214380F; Mon, 22 Jul 2002 16:40:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: John Polstra Cc: alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How to netboot an Alpha? In-Reply-To: <200207221604.g6MG4QkA029339@vashon.polstra.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 16:40:17 -0700 From: Peter Wemm Message-Id: <20020722234017.A0214380F@overcee.wemm.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org John Polstra wrote: > In article <20020722050025.GG83916@cicely5.cicely.de>, > Bernd Walter wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 11:49:18AM +1000, Rob B wrote: > > > If you have the DHCP server and kernel name saved in the corresponding sr m > > > variables, you can do: > > > > > > >>> boot ewa0 > > > > bootp is there so you don't have to name the server. > > I never needed to configure them. > > But now that you say - there are different boot protocolls than > > bootp - mop I remember. > > And you might need to setup the interface on the netcard as > > autoselecting doen't work on some machines. > > > > I've setup the following variables. > > Thanks, guys! That should be all I need. > > John Beware of the libstand/in_cksum.c bug. This hurts Alpha because the code is actually used. On x86, we call the UDP transmit functions that PXE provides directly and do not have to deal with this part of the code. You'll either need to turn on the compile option to turn off udp checksums within libstand or pull in the libstand in_cksum.c fix. Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message