Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2003 12:18:24 +1100 From: Peter Jeremy <peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au> To: Rob B <rbyrnes@ozemail.com.au> Cc: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netbooting Alpha Message-ID: <20030108011823.GF1877@gsmx07.alcatel.com.au> In-Reply-To: <5.1.1.6.2.20030108115357.01d0bb30@127.0.0.1> References: <15898.58132.797659.705168@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <5.1.1.6.2.20030107134925.01d00880@127.0.0.1> <20030107134117.GB28476@cicely8.cicely.de> <15898.58132.797659.705168@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <5.1.1.6.2.20030108115357.01d0bb30@127.0.0.1>
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On 2003-Jan-08 11:56:31 +1100, Rob B <rbyrnes@ozemail.com.au> wrote: >At 03:03 8/01/2003, Wilko Bulte sent this up the stick: >>And in some cases you have to make sure you have the right SRM console >>firmware version. For some revs netbooting was broken. > >OK ... this worries me. What is the "right version"? I'm running - from >memory - 3.8 (whatever is the latest publically available) The latest Multia SRM version (3.8.3) is "partially broken". It fits midway between the `old' and `new' boot styles and needs a patch to netboot make it work: The SRM is broken enough to need the MAC address explicitly included in netbbinfo, but call to prom_read() in prom_get() _does_ need to specify the receiving structure size (ie the broken_firmware test is not needed). There's an open PR on this but I don't have the number handy. If you can't recompile netboot yourself, I can send you a binary with instructions for patching it with your MAC address. Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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