Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 09:10:47 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Miles Nordin <carton@Ivy.NET> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: network boot Message-ID: <20050726161047.GJ62369@funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <oqll3uox1n.fsf@castrovalva.Ivy.NET> References: <oqll3uox1n.fsf@castrovalva.Ivy.NET>
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Miles Nordin wrote this message on Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 03:18 -0400: > Is there a way to netboot FreeBSD/sparc64? Yes, I did it a couple years ago, so I'm a bit hazy on the details... > I'm coming to FreeBSD from NetBSD, where I netboot NetBSD/sparc64 and > just about everything except PeeCees, so I already know how to set up > rarp, dhcp, tftp, NFS. Also I was able to cat the split FreeBSD > release chunks and untar them---I don't know if you're supposed to do > that, but I did it and poked around---so I have something like a root > filesystem and am able to read man pages. That's basicly what the install does for your.. :) > However I don't understand FreeBSD's booting process, and I don't see > where to get the second-stage loader binary to feed OpenPROM over > tftp, something like NetBSD's /usr/mdec/ofwboot.net. You should be able to use /boot/loader for that... (from your extracted bin.?? files) > Also something like the diskless(8) man page to explain how the > second-stage loader likes to load, on NetBSD the kernel but on FreeBSD > I guess it has to load a great many things like the several files that > make up the rest of the bootloader and kernel modules and whatever, > once I have the tftp second-stage loader how do I direct the booting > system to these other files? http://people.freebsd.org/~murray/sparc64/install.html Though it looks like you should use the /boot/loader instead of the one specified in the doc (since they don't exist anymore).. Hope the doc helps... -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 "All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not."
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