Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 02:42:11 +0200 From: "Didrik Madheden" <didrik@kth.se> To: "Miles Nordin" <carton@ivy.net> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Netbooting Sparc64 Message-ID: <6d7d37410704211742p2340707cpf27fd280a2d0f353@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <oqfy6tl1t8.fsf@castrovalva.Ivy.NET> References: <6d7d37410704211612u712d29ebl4722232ce8d0111d@mail.gmail.com> <oqfy6tl1t8.fsf@castrovalva.Ivy.NET>
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That seems pretty straightforward, I'll try it out. Thank you.
But there's one more problem (Please forgive my ignorance, but
everybody has a first time) I don't really know how to manage NFS. I
should probably read a guide and so on, but maybe you (Or someone)
could give a quick guide on how to set up a share?
Also, another problem is that I'm using my router for DHCP, is there
any way of doing this without giving extra options via DHCP? I could
perhaps solve it some other way, but given the hardware I possess,
it'd be easier if this could be solved without using a DHCP server on
a box.
On 4/22/07, Miles Nordin <carton@ivy.net> wrote:
> >>>>> "dm" =3D=3D Didrik Madheden <didrik@kth.se> writes:
>
> dm> A push in the right direction,
>
> set up RARP and TFTP on the boot server. Put /boot/loader onto the
> TFTP server and name it after your machine's IP address in hex, in all
> caps, such as '0A64648E' for 10.100.100.142.
>
> When you type 'boot net' at the ok prompt, OpenPROM will do RARP, and
> then TFTP for that filename to whatever IP answered the RARP lookup.
>
> When /boot/loader gets control, it will call back to OpenPROM for
> access to the network chip and console. It will use DHCP. Set up
> DHCP on some machine, and use 'options root-path' to point
> /boot/loader to the root filesystem. ex.:
>
> host amber {
> fixed-address amber;
> hardware ethernet 08:00:20:01:02:03;
> option root-path "69.31.131.61:/export/nboot/amber";
> }
>
> /boot/loader will read all the other /boot/... stuff it needs over
> NFS, so make an NFS share for it. Use '-maproot=3Droot' in the exports
> file on the NFS server.
>
> Don't use bootparams at all.
>
> RARP and TFTP must run on the same machine. DHCP can run on a
> different machine if you like. The NFS server can be a third machine.
>
>
/Didrik Madheden
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