Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 13:20:13 -0400 (EDT) From: Chris Jackman <cjack@klatsch.org> To: Jake Burkholder <jake@locore.ca> Cc: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help booting Ultra2 from cdrom Message-ID: <20020730113550.K20908-100000@whiskey.klatsch.org> In-Reply-To: <20020720201426.I79564@locore.ca>
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On Sat, 20 Jul 2002, Jake Burkholder wrote: > > You'll have to netboot your machine (with one cpu). Sorry, I forgot > about your other message re problems netbooting. I've seen that > problem before, I think its a timing issue in the loader. Try creating > an empty /etc/fstab file in the nfs root file system on the server, and/or > symlinking the kernel to kernel.ko. I moved to netbooting from an OpenBSD box. I put it and the sun on a hub alone, and now I can 'make it go' every time i reboot the sun. The boot loader gets the proper IP address, and can grab the kernel over tftp. What's the proper line to give the sun to make it grab the root partition over nfs. Something like 'boot net root=/mnt/export' ? When i just 'boot net' I see: boot: ethernet address: 08:00:20:9a:76:f4 net_open: server addr: 192.168.1.92 net_open: server path: /mnt/export net_open: boot file: /boot/kernel/kernel /boot/kernel/kernel data=0x2ca608+..... but I still get a mountroot> prompt. Also, the boot loader is RRQ'ing /boot/loader.rc, and /boot/boot.conf, neither of which I have set up anywhere. Not sure if this is important. It's not mentioned on bmah's installation notes page. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message
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