Date: Tue, 20 Jul 1999 09:12:55 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: shawn@eth0.net Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How about netboot? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907200912000.58023-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSI.4.05.9907191809120.165-100000@comet.connix.com>
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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
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