Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 07:00:26 +0200 From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely5.cicely.de> To: Rob B <rbyrnes@ozemail.com.au> Cc: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>, alpha@freebsd.org, ticso@cicely.de Subject: Re: How to netboot an Alpha? Message-ID: <20020722050025.GG83916@cicely5.cicely.de> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20020722114759.01cdd880@pop.ozemail.com.au> References: <20020721172936.GF83916@cicely5.cicely.de> <XFMail.20020721094706.jdp@polstra.com> <20020721172936.GF83916@cicely5.cicely.de> <5.1.0.14.2.20020722114759.01cdd880@pop.ozemail.com.au>
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On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 11:49:18AM +1000, Rob B wrote: > At 08:20 22/07/2002, John Polstra sent this up the stick: > >In article <20020721172936.GF83916@cicely5.cicely.de>, > >Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely.de> wrote: > >> On Sun, Jul 21, 2002 at 09:47:06AM -0700, John Polstra wrote: > >> > Could somebody point me to some instructions on how to netboot an > >> > Alpha? I don't need much detail, just a quick jumpstart. I already > >> > know how to netboot an i386 machine using pxeldr. My machine has a > >> > DE500-BA network interface (dc driver). > >> > >> That's what I used with isc-dhcpd some time ago: > >[...] > >> netboot is serviced via tftp. > >> > >> I'm not shure if it still works as there were several rumours > >> about problems with netboot. > > > >Thanks -- that's helpful. But what do I do on the Alpha itself to > >tell it I want to boot from the network? > > If you have the DHCP server and kernel name saved in the corresponding srm > variables, you can do: > > >>> boot ewa0 bootp is there so you don't have to name the server. I never needed to configure them. But now that you say - there are different boot protocolls than bootp - mop I remember. And you might need to setup the interface on the netcard as autoselecting doen't work on some machines. I've setup the following variables. Most of them should be default. ewa0_mode for 100basetx is named fast. ewa0_arp_tries 3 ewa0_bootp_file ewa0_bootp_server ewa0_bootp_tries 3 ewa0_def_ginetaddr 0.0.0.0 ewa0_def_inetaddr 0.0.0.0 ewa0_def_inetfile ewa0_def_sinetaddr 0.0.0.0 ewa0_def_subnetmask 0.0.0.0 ewa0_ginetaddr 0.0.0.0 ewa0_inet_init bootp ewa0_inetaddr 0.0.0.0 ewa0_inetfile ewa0_loop_count 3e8 ewa0_loop_inc a ewa0_loop_patt ffffffff ewa0_loop_size 2e ewa0_lp_msg_node 1 ewa0_mode Twisted-Pair ewa0_protocols BOOTP ewa0_sinetaddr 0.0.0.0 ewa0_tftp_tries 3 -- B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de ticso@cicely.de Usergroup info@cosmo-project.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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