Date: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 09:10:26 -0600 From: "Eric L. Hernes" <erich@lodgenet.com> To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Cc: ambrisko@whistle.com (Doug Ambrisko), current@FreeBSD.ORG, erich@jake.lodgenet.com Subject: Re: netboot & ELF kernels Message-ID: <199901141510.JAA86132@jake.lodgenet.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 14 Jan 1999 04:51:58 %2B0100." <199901140351.EAA28535@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>
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Luigi Rizzo writes: >> >A few comments on netboot. Recently, erich@lodgenet.com >contributed netboot support for "fxp" cards. The msg was posted on some >freebsd list about 1 month ago, and the file to look for is "nbfxp.tgz". > >Again, better than nothing, although it does not support ELF i think. > Yea, that's right, although it's the netboot infrastructure, not the fxp specifics (obviously). I talked to Mike Smith on the future of netbooting when the 3-stage boot was still in early developoment. There is some code in the new 3rd stage that looks like it's there for netboot; but I'm not sure whether it's functional or not. I was kind of figuring that the current bootroms would get the 3rd stage boot loader, which would in turn fetch the real kernel. Supporting any card that has a FreeBSD driver isn't that tough, you don't really need programming specs other than the driver source (although it is nice). Tricker is actually burning the flash image. >Having tried both the tftp and nfs method, i prefer the latter a lot >because it means i don't have to cnfigure another service (TFTP) on the >server: with the current FreeBSD's netboot, you can supply all >parameters with bootp (which you'd need anyways -- or replace it with >DHCP i guess) and download the kernel with NFS (which your server >probably already has). I'd have to agree with the bootp/nfs scheme. I use NFS enough that I'm somewhat familiar with the errors it gives; but everytime something goes wrong with tftp, I end up groveling through the man-pages and tcpdump ;-) > > cheers > luigi > Eric -- Eric L. Hernes erich@lodgenet.com erich@rrnet.com http://rrnet.com/~erich To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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