From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Dec 15 14: 5:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 705BA155D4 for ; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 14:05:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: from yedi.iaf.nl (uucp@localhost) by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (8.9.2/8.9.2) with UUCP id WAA02520; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 22:05:42 +0100 (MET) Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA03887; Wed, 15 Dec 1999 22:48:45 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wilko) Date: Wed, 15 Dec 1999 22:48:45 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte To: Doug Rabson Cc: FreeBSD-alpha mailing list Subject: Re: netboot on alpha Message-ID: <19991215224845.B3729@yedi.iaf.nl> References: <19991214215644.A35183@yedi.iaf.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from dfr@nlsystems.com on Wed, Dec 15, 1999 at 10:37:03AM +0000 X-OS: FreeBSD yedi.iaf.nl 3.3-STABLE FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Dec 15, 1999 at 10:37:03AM +0000, Doug Rabson wrote: > On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > Has anybody recently tested the netboot functionality of FreeBSD/alpha? > > > > Reason for asking is that an older netboot exec seems to work: > > > > FreeBSD/alpha SRM net boot, Revision 0.1 > > (root@alpine.iaf.nl, Tue Oct 19 18:47:13 CEST 1999) > > Memory: 98304 k > > > > but the one in -current does not appear to. > > I haven't tested it for a couple of months. I did a bit more experimenting: using a freshly built 'netboot' out of the 'old' sources gives me: >>> boot ez0 -fi "kernel" INIT-S-CPU... AUDIT_BOOT_STARTS ... AUDIT_BOOT_REQ kernel Host server IP address is 192.168.200.22 AUDIT_BSERVER_FOUND AUDIT_LOAD_BEGINS AUDIT_LOAD_DONE ?02 KSP INVAL PC= 00000000.00000000 PSL= 00000000.00001F00 >>> ----- The older netboot excutable (built in october) gives: >>> boot ez0 -fi "kernel" INIT-S-CPU... AUDIT_BOOT_STARTS ... AUDIT_BOOT_REQ kernel Host server IP address is 192.168.200.22 AUDIT_BSERVER_FOUND AUDIT_LOAD_BEGINS AUDIT_LOAD_DONE Console: SRM firmware console VMS PAL rev: 0x100010538 OSF PAL rev: 0x2012d Switch to OSF PAL code succeeded. FreeBSD/alpha SRM net boot, Revision 0.1 (root@alpine.iaf.nl, Tue Oct 19 18:47:13 CEST 1999) Memory: 98304 k boot: ethernet address: 08:00:2b:3c:61:45 net_open: server addr: 192.168.200.22 net_open: server path: /usr/sandpiper boot: ethernet address: 08:00:2b:3c:61:45 net_open: server addr: 192.168.200.22 net_open: server path: /usr/sandpiper boot: ethernet address: 08:00:2b:3c:61:45 net_open: server addr: 192.168.200.22 net_open: server path: /usr/sandpiper Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt. Booting [kernel] in 5 seconds... Type '?' for a list of commands, 'help' for more detailed help. net0:> net0:> [etc] In looking at the cvs logs I don't see a reason why it should have stopped working. Far fetched: the change in compiler? W/ -- Wilko Bulte Arnhem, The Netherlands - The FreeBSD Project WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message