From owner-freebsd-current Fri Feb 19 11:40:47 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6EA091189A for ; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 11:40:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from localhost (dfr@localhost) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.2/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA81838; Fri, 19 Feb 1999 19:39:28 GMT (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 19:39:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: Mike Smith Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: netboot status ? (diskless related) In-Reply-To: <199902191909.LAA00902@dingo.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 19 Feb 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > * or use my etherboot port that is pr: > > [1999/01/13] ports/9480 ports ELF kernel netboot > > > > Note it needs two patches that have be found since the original PR. It > > supports a.out, ELF, mknbi images (ie DOS and some other stuff). > > > > Doug A. > > One of atleast a couple people netbooting ELF kernels, starting to think people > > don't care about netbooting anymore. > > I'm just waiting for you to finish the job; the loader needs network > support too (there is actually WIP on this, let me know if you need > more information). Note that the bootp/dhcp and nfs code in libstand works perfectly (I use it for netboot on the alpha) so all that is needed is drivers. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message