Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:35:43 +0100 From: Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de> To: Miles Nordin <carton@Ivy.NET> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Free Ultra2 in Silicon Valley, USA Message-ID: <20081112213543.GA71577@alchemy.franken.de> In-Reply-To: <oqy6zoisrr.fsf@castrovalva.Ivy.NET> References: <20081031124442.GB9102@soaustin.net> <183638.12752.qm@web56802.mail.re3.yahoo.com> <20081031131827.GA9613@soaustin.net> <20081103223042.GB8256@alchemy.franken.de> <20081104115722.GA28394@soaustin.net> <20081104221003.GE31338@alchemy.franken.de> <20081105184746.GA26875@soaustin.net> <20081112201029.GE64456@alchemy.franken.de> <oqy6zoisrr.fsf@castrovalva.Ivy.NET>
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On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 03:38:48PM -0500, Miles Nordin wrote: > >>>>> "ms" == Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de> writes: > > ms> I couldn't get the firmware of mine to netboot. > > 'boot net:dhcp' that you're often advised to type silently tries to > boot by RARP without complaining about the :dhcp. I gave up trying to > boot with DHCP. meh. > > of course freebsd 'loader' will still want dhcp, so you need to have > rarp + tftp running on the same machine to provide 'loader' to the > firmware, and also a dhcp server running somewhere. you do not need a > bootparams server. iirc 'loader' will quietly use either tftp or nfs > to load all it's config and forth bootstrap and kernel and modules. I've tried with both dhcpd and rarpd in place. I have other sun4u machines that only boot using RARP so I know my setup works. Marius
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