From owner-freebsd-sparc Thu Mar 28 14:16: 6 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from k6.locore.ca (k6.locore.ca [198.96.117.170]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B97F437B405 for ; Thu, 28 Mar 2002 14:16:01 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jake@localhost) by k6.locore.ca (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2SMQmP42681; Thu, 28 Mar 2002 17:26:49 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jake) Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 17:26:47 -0500 From: Jake Burkholder To: Udo Erdelhoff Cc: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: loader-tftp? (was Re: Boot failure - Ultra Enterprise 450 server) Message-ID: <20020328172647.A40695@locore.ca> References: <20020328095142.GC51146@nathan.ruhr.de> <20020328131633.GA297@crow.dom2ip.de> <20020328202427.GF51146@nathan.ruhr.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20020328202427.GF51146@nathan.ruhr.de>; from ue@nathan.ruhr.de on Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 09:24:28PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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