From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 16 08:43:21 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id IAA12619 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 16 Mar 1995 08:43:21 -0800 Received: from goof.com (root@goof.com [198.82.204.15]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id IAA12613 for ; Thu, 16 Mar 1995 08:43:19 -0800 Received: (from mmead@localhost) by goof.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) id LAA29139; Thu, 16 Mar 1995 11:44:27 -0500 From: "matthew c. mead" Message-Id: <199503161644.LAA29139@goof.com> Subject: Re: Diskless booting - netboot.com problems? To: mmead@goof.com (mmead) Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 11:44:27 -0500 (EST) Cc: martin@victor.innovus.com, starkhome!gene@sbstark.cs.sunysb.edu, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "mmead" at Mar 16, 95 11:01:09 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1892 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Martin Renters wrote: > > > >cc -O2 -DNFS -DROMSIZE=16384 -DRELOC=0x90000 -DINCLUDE_WD -DWD_DEFAULT_MEM=0xD0000 -DINCLUDE_NE -DNE_BASE=0x320 -DINCLUDE_3COM -D_3COM_BASE=0x300 -c start2.S > > > > > > >Anything look wrong? Thanks again! > > > > > > I don't think the program can support two configured network cards at once. > > > Try compiling for only the card that you want to use to boot with. > > It used to work fine with SMC and NE200 support. I haven't tried it with > > 3C503 also compiled in, but I don't see why it wouldn't work. The probe > > routine tries to find SMC cards, and if that fails looks for an NE2000 or > > 3C503. > Taking out support for all but one card works fine. It appears, > however, that it cannot find the 3C503. I have a 3C503 on an isa slot in a > pentium machine with a PCI bus. It says it can't find the adapter. I'm going > to swap the SMC card in the 486 with the 3COM card in the Pentium and see if it > works. On the 486, I can load up the kernel and everything, but it dies with a > SIOCFADDR or something like that - with the error number 6. It's a panic in > nfs_mountroot or somesuch. I'm going to try a SNAP kernel and see what > happens. the exact error is: panic: nfs_mountroot: SIOCAIFADDR: 6 then it reboots - do I need to do some special config kernel root on 198.82.168.1:/u1/mmead/rootfs/vision or something like that? Thanks! BTW - I just grabbed the 3com version that was sent to hackers today and for some reason it sees the card but cannot talk to the bootp server... :-( The SMC cards can. -matt -- Matthew C. Mead -> Virginia Tech Center for Transportation Research - -> Multiple Platform System and Network Administration Work Related -> mmead@ctr.vt.edu | mmead@goof.com <- All Other ---- ------- WWW -> http://www.goof.com/~mmead --- -----