From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 27 23:35:17 2003 Return-Path: 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 0DB1C16A4BF for ; Wed, 27 Aug 2003 23:35:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mgr2.xmission.com (mgr2.xmission.com [198.60.22.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1606143F3F for ; Wed, 27 Aug 2003 23:35:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from glewis@eyesbeyond.com) Received: from mail by mgr2.xmission.com with spam-scanned (Exim 3.35 #1) id 19sGNE-0001y7-02 for freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org; Thu, 28 Aug 2003 00:35:15 -0600 Received: from [207.135.128.145] (helo=misty.eyesbeyond.com) by mgr2.xmission.com with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 19sGNB-0001sb-02 for freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org; Thu, 28 Aug 2003 00:35:10 -0600 Received: from misty.eyesbeyond.com (localhost.eyesbeyond.com [127.0.0.1]) by misty.eyesbeyond.com (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h7S6hhC5070302 for ; Thu, 28 Aug 2003 00:43:51 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from glewis@eyesbeyond.com) Received: (from glewis@localhost) by misty.eyesbeyond.com (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h7S6hcof070300 for freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org; Thu, 28 Aug 2003 00:43:38 -0600 (MDT) X-Authentication-Warning: misty.eyesbeyond.com: glewis set sender to glewis@eyesbeyond.com using -f Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 00:43:36 -0600 From: Greg Lewis To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20030828064336.GA70254@misty.eyesbeyond.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-8.6 required=8.0 tests=BAYES_01,USER_AGENT_MUTT,X_AUTH_WARNING autolearn=ham version=2.55 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) Subject: Netbooting 4.8 X-BeenThere: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Alpha List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2003 06:35:17 -0000 Hi all, Having given up cross-compiling in my quest to netboot my EB164 I gained access to an Alpha running 4.8 and compiled a kernel with the following options: options BOOTP options BOOTP_NFSROOT options BOOTP_WIRED_TO=de0 I've also tried kernels with and without: options BOOTP_NFSV3 options BOOTP_COMPAT just to be thorough with no change on the result. The machine gets the netboot binary ok via tftp, although the last few lines of that boot stage look a little fishy: net_open: server addr: 10.0.0.1 net_open: server path: /diskless/FreeBSD/alpha/4.8 Loader version 0.3+ required Aborted! start not found However, the kernel proceeds to boot and gets right to the point where it tries to mount its root file system. I then see: mounting root from nfs:10.0.0.1:/diskless/FreeBSD/alpha/4.8 missing device name setrootbyname failed bootpc_init: wired to interface 'de0' Sending DHCP discover packet from interface de0 (00:00:f8:06:5f:f3) DHCP/BOOTP timeout for server 255.255.255.255 and the last line just repeats ad infinitum. I've got this machine netbooting NetBSD 1.6.1 and OpenBSD 3.3 so I know it can netboot :). Any pointers as to what I may need to configure differently would be appreciated. Also, if someone out there is netbooting 4.8 at the moment, I'd love to compare your configuration to mine and see if I can't find the problem that way. -- Greg Lewis Email : glewis@eyesbeyond.com Eyes Beyond Web : http://www.eyesbeyond.com Information Technology FreeBSD : glewis@FreeBSD.org