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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message
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