Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 18:29:19 -0400 From: Jake Burkholder <jake@locore.ca> To: Fred Clift <fclift@verio.net> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: usage of boot.flp Message-ID: <20030519222919.GA18282@locore.ca> In-Reply-To: <20030519133345.Y34980@irfcn.qzm.berz.irevb.arg> References: <20030519133345.Y34980@irfcn.qzm.berz.irevb.arg>
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Apparently, On Mon, May 19, 2003 at 01:45:39PM -0600, Fred Clift said words to the effect of; > > I have a > > SPARCengine(tm)Ultra(tm) AXi (UltraSPARC-IIi 360MHz), No Keyboard > OpenBoot 3.10.4 SME, 128 MB memory installed, Serial #10425614. > > > which I want to put FreeBSD 5.1-BETA on. I grabbed the boot.flp (a bit > over 4 MB), dropped it into my ftfp/rarp/bootparams server and made made > all the setup right afaik. > > The file is properly tftp'd when I 'boot net' and I get > > ... > Boot device: /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/network@1,1 File and args: - > 404000 (this line counts up as it loads the file...) > The file just loaded does not appear to be executable. > ... > > > Should I be doing something different with this? I was hoping not to have > to download and burn a CD... > > > Or am I just doing this wrong? Hm -- perhaps i should boot into my > network recovery shell and dd this over the first slice? I'm new to > FreeBSD on sparc64 - thanks for your patience and help. Yes. dd it to a slice and boot from that. Jake
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