Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2002 13:00:10 -0400 From: Jake Burkholder <jake@locore.ca> To: Chris Jackman <cjack@klatsch.org> Cc: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help booting Ultra2 from cdrom Message-ID: <20020731130010.N4442@locore.ca> In-Reply-To: <20020730113550.K20908-100000@whiskey.klatsch.org>; from cjack@klatsch.org on Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 01:20:13PM -0400 References: <20020720201426.I79564@locore.ca> <20020730113550.K20908-100000@whiskey.klatsch.org>
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Apparently, On Tue, Jul 30, 2002 at 01:20:13PM -0400, Chris Jackman said words to the effect of; > > > On Sat, 20 Jul 2002, Jake Burkholder wrote: > > > > > You'll have to netboot your machine (with one cpu). Sorry, I forgot > > about your other message re problems netbooting. I've seen that > > problem before, I think its a timing issue in the loader. Try creating > > an empty /etc/fstab file in the nfs root file system on the server, and/or > > symlinking the kernel to kernel.ko. > > I moved to netbooting from an OpenBSD box. I put it and the sun on a hub > alone, and now I can 'make it go' every time i reboot the sun. The boot > loader gets the proper IP address, and can grab the kernel over tftp. > > What's the proper line to give the sun to make it grab the root partition > over nfs. Something like 'boot net root=/mnt/export' ? > > When i just 'boot net' I see: > > boot: ethernet address: 08:00:20:9a:76:f4 > net_open: server addr: 192.168.1.92 > net_open: server path: /mnt/export > net_open: boot file: /boot/kernel/kernel > > /boot/kernel/kernel data=0x2ca608+..... > > but I still get a mountroot> prompt. Sounds like you don't have the nfsroot kernel; it should do a bootp request, you can't specify it at the mountroot prompt. There should be a kernel.nfsroot in the development directly on the ftp site. > > Also, the boot loader is RRQ'ing /boot/loader.rc, and /boot/boot.conf, > neither of which I have set up anywhere. Not sure if this is important. > It's not mentioned on bmah's installation notes page. It does this by default, just ignore it. Jake To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message
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