From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Jul 20 1:11:48 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 9A9F114F48 for ; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 01:11:34 -0700 (PDT) (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 JAA21072; Tue, 20 Jul 1999 09:12:55 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 09:12:55 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: shawn@eth0.net Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How about netboot? In-Reply-To: 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 Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Shawn Kelly O Shea wrote: > > I havent actually had FreeBSD/alpha installed yet, so I didnt know there > was a /boot/netboot. I grabbed it out of the install bin.?? set w/ tar and > tried the netboot. The FreeBSD/alpha SRM loader comes up, and this seems > to load the NetBSD/alpha netboot install. I say this, because it complains > that "boot: boot device name does not contain ethernet address" and goes > on to tell you that in the NetBSD/alpha distro you can code the enet addr > into the image w/ the setnetbootinfo command. I checked out FreeBSD bin.?? > set again and didnt see this, so I'll have to grab it from NetBSD, see if > I can run it on my AlphaServer 300 (another alpha i have running RedHat5.2 > right now) and go from there. > -Shawn Hmm. I've never tested that bit of the code (as you can see). Would it be possible for you to upgrade your firmware and see if netboot works better. -- 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