From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Apr 2 3:32:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from gnah.bolet.org (gnah.bolet.org [80.65.226.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AAD837B41A for ; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 03:32:17 -0800 (PST) Received: (from pornin@localhost) by gnah.bolet.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g32BW9Y06640; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 13:32:09 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from pornin) Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 13:32:08 +0200 From: Thomas Pornin To: Rob B Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Source of "processor correctable error"? Message-ID: <20020402133207.A6601@gnah.bolet.org> References: <3CA8EADE.C11C8DF7@mindspring.com> <20020402002303.GH41357@cicely8.cicely.de> <20020402112528.A6188@gnah.bolet.org> <20020402110420.GI41357@cicely8.cicely.de> <00d801c1da37$50e313c0$0b64a8c0@becca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <00d801c1da37$50e313c0$0b64a8c0@becca>; from rbyrnes@ozemail.com.au on Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 09:12:44PM +1000 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 On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 09:12:44PM +1000, Rob B wrote: > When I get my Multia nettbooting and running root-over-nfs, I'll give this a > whirl! > > Speaking of which, has anyone had a setup like this? I have never done root-over-nfs, but I netbooted several times two Multia boxes. It was when 4.0 was actually -CURRENT in early stages. The floppy drive was dead. At that time, I could *not* netboot neither FreeBSD, NetBSD nor OpenBSD. The usual FAQs said that the SRM was too old. However, I could netboot Linux on the same boxes. This way, I could have a minimal OS and dump the contents of the boot disk on the internal hard drive (a raw byte by byte write, no partition table nor disklabel stuff). Then I could boot on the disk as if I had booted a floppy. The NetBSD and FreeBSD install programs were smart enough not to believe the floppy disklabel that was on the hard disk, and detected the right disk geometry. OpenBSD fumbled, however, and I had to enter that geometry by hand. It is quite possible that the netbooting code has been reviewed since. Or maybe my SRM was indeed too old, and a new version would have set things aright. > I'll give that a whirl ... or maybe OpenBSD Back to when I did my testing, OpenBSD was not a real option, due to lack of shared libraries. It seems that the newest release has shared libraries, though. You might try NetBSD as well. It has the longest history of Alpha support, among the "free unices". --Thomas Pornin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message