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Date:      Thu, 28 Mar 2002 17:26:47 -0500
From:      Jake Burkholder <jake@locore.ca>
To:        Udo Erdelhoff <ue@nathan.ruhr.de>
Cc:        freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: loader-tftp? (was Re: Boot failure - Ultra Enterprise 450 server)
Message-ID:  <20020328172647.A40695@locore.ca>
In-Reply-To: <20020328202427.GF51146@nathan.ruhr.de>; from ue@nathan.ruhr.de on Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 09:24:28PM %2B0100
References:  <20020328095142.GC51146@nathan.ruhr.de> <20020328131633.GA297@crow.dom2ip.de> <20020328202427.GF51146@nathan.ruhr.de>

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Apparently, On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 09:24:28PM +0100,
	Udo Erdelhoff said words to the effect of;

> On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 02:16:33PM +0100, Thomas Moestl wrote:
> > However, you will need to set up network booting in this case if you
> > want to try them
> 
> As I cannot use NFS (political, not technical problems), I wanted
> to retrieve the kernel with tftp.  Unfortunately, the official
> directory according to the installation docs does not contain any
> copy of the loader; the 'inofficial' directories (jake's and obrien's
> public dirs on people.freebsd.org) contain only the disk and nfs
> versions of the loader.  As I do not have a working FreeBSD/sparc64
> yet, building the loader seems rather difficult.
> 
> Could somebody with a copy of loader-tftp put it onto a ftp server
> somewhere and pass me the URL? Thanks.

That loader should work ok for loading the kernel using tftp.  Use
boot -C or set boot_cdrom=yes to tell it to mount root from the
cd, I've installed a box like this before.

Jake

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