From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 19 04:39:07 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B06016A4CE for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2003 04:39:07 -0800 (PST) Received: from decstation.larkowski.net (d60-65-37-214.col.wideopenwest.com [65.60.214.37]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6FE443F75 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2003 04:39:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@larkowski.net) Received: from localhost (peter@localhost)hAJCd1s08833 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2003 07:39:02 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 07:38:59 -0500 (EST) From: peter@larkowski.net To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Netboot? X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 12:39:07 -0000 Is netbooting officially supported as an installation method? Also, has anyone tried a snapshot from current.freebsd.org? I downloaded the 5.1-CURRENT-20031118-JPSNAP snapshot. I setup rarp with /boot/loader and I setup an nfs exported partition with the kernel and the contents of mfsroot.gz. It boots fine, and mounts the nfs root, although it's readonly and sysinstall complains. I started the emergency shell and used boot_crunch to remount root read-write (which seems to work fine). This quiets sysinstall, but it still errors out when it comes time to actually make filesystems. It doesn't say anything useful (only that there was an error), so I don't really know what's happening. Once it "Finishes with errors", I can't start the shell anymore. Am I doing something unsupported, or am I just doing something wrong? Any pointers? -p