From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Dec 26 23:53: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mass.cdrom.com (castles554.castles.com [208.214.165.118]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79429152E6 for ; Sun, 26 Dec 1999 23:52:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Received: from mass.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA05394; Sun, 26 Dec 1999 23:56:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199912270756.XAA05394@mass.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Doug Rabson Cc: FreeBSD-alpha mailing list Subject: Re: diskless boot on Alpha In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 26 Dec 1999 17:46:27 GMT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 26 Dec 1999 23:56:30 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > On Fri, 24 Dec 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > > > I'm puzzled.. > > > > > > NB as the code tells me to use 'loader', how do I set > > > that up on Alpha? I still need to bootp netboot right? > > > > netboot is the loader, it just has the wrong name. One of these days > > they'll all coalesce back into a single binary. > > Tricky. The main differences between netboot and loader (apart from the > default fs) is the link address. Since loader is a second stage boot and > netboot is a first stage, they are linked at different addresses. I think > netboot and cdboot would be easier to merge. Hmm. I'm sure I asked you before how hard it would be to self-relocate the loader. Do you remember what you told me? -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message