From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Dec 27 3:12: 0 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD13214CB5; Mon, 27 Dec 1999 03:11:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from salmon.nlsystems.com (salmon.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.3]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA21930; Mon, 27 Dec 1999 11:24:11 GMT (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1999 11:24:11 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: Mike Smith Cc: FreeBSD-alpha mailing list Subject: Re: diskless boot on Alpha In-Reply-To: <199912270756.XAA05394@mass.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 26 Dec 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > On Fri, 24 Dec 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > > > > > > I'm puzzled.. > > > > > > > > NB as the code tells me to use 'loader', how do I set > > > > that up on Alpha? I still need to bootp netboot right? > > > > > > netboot is the loader, it just has the wrong name. One of these days > > > they'll all coalesce back into a single binary. > > > > Tricky. The main differences between netboot and loader (apart from the > > default fs) is the link address. Since loader is a second stage boot and > > netboot is a first stage, they are linked at different addresses. I think > > netboot and cdboot would be easier to merge. > > Hmm. I'm sure I asked you before how hard it would be to self-relocate > the loader. Do you remember what you told me? I don't remember. In principle it would be quite straightforward. If boot1 was written carefully, it would also be possible to move /boot/loader into place before running it. There are a 200 or so bytes spare in boot1 so this might be feasable. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message