From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 16 21:28:06 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id VAA15284 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 16 Mar 1995 21:28:06 -0800 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id VAA15278 for ; Thu, 16 Mar 1995 21:28:05 -0800 Received: (from phk@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id VAA14705; Thu, 16 Mar 1995 21:26:32 -0800 From: Poul-Henning Kamp Message-Id: <199503170526.VAA14705@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: Diskless booting - netboot.com problems? To: babkin@hq.icb.chel.su (Serge A. Babkin) Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 21:26:31 -0800 (PST) Cc: davidg@Root.COM, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199503171508.KAA01942@hq.icb.chel.su> from "Serge A. Babkin" at Mar 17, 95 10:08:51 am Content-Type: text Content-Length: 925 Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > >device is named ie0 instead of ed0. Correct this name in main.c to fix > > >this problem (bit in this case it will work with 3C503 ONLY). > > > > This is not true. The ie driver does not work with the 3c503. > > > Sorry. You're right, I'm not right. Ie0 is 3c507. In this case > I don't know why it doesn't works. But when I wrote support for 3c509 I > got the same error until I fixed name of card. Moreover, this error > explicitly means that NFS can't find the interface specified by > the network boot. Yes, there is evil code that know to look for "ed%d" in the disk-less startup. Somebody needs to revise the netboot.[rc]om to pass the interface name prefix ("ed" or "ie" ...) in the boot structure, and use that instead. -- Poul-Henning Kamp -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc. 'All relevant people are pertinent' && 'All rude people are impertinent' => 'no rude people are relevant'