From owner-freebsd-sparc64@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jun 17 23:20:05 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36C551065671 for ; Tue, 17 Jun 2008 23:20:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from royce@alaska.net) Received: from hermes.acsalaska.net (hermes.acsalaska.net [209.112.173.230]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F242B8FC15 for ; Tue, 17 Jun 2008 23:20:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from royce@alaska.net) Received: from [10.0.102.101] (209-112-156-36-adslb0fh.acsalaska.net [209.112.156.36]) by hermes.acsalaska.net (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id m5HNK3Ux033282; Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:20:03 -0800 (AKDT) (envelope-from royce@alaska.net) Message-ID: <485846A3.2060306@alaska.net> Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:20:03 -0800 From: Royce Williams User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8.1.14) Gecko/20080421 Thunderbird/2.0.0.14 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mauro Calderara References: <979CB183-376B-45A9-893D-D5EE5307123E@phys.ethz.ch> In-Reply-To: <979CB183-376B-45A9-893D-D5EE5307123E@phys.ethz.ch> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 OpenPGP: url=http://www.tycho.org/royce/royce@alaska.net.asc X-Face: ">19[ShfDD9'g", GrH$'v:=qBVZdg.kXSBR6*ZC$am:D Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ACS-Spam-Status: no X-ACS-Scanned-By: MD 2.63; SA 3.2.3; spamdefang 1.122 Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: netboot/install on sparc64 X-BeenThere: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Sparc List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 23:20:05 -0000 Hello, Mauro - Mauro Calderara wrote, on 6/16/2008 4:48 AM: > I'm new to FreeBSD and sparc64 Welcome! > and am currently trying to install > FreeBSD on a few Netras 105 and Fire V120 Machines, all but one do not > have a CDROM drive. Searching for documentation I stumbled across this > document here: > > http://www.freebsd.org/fr/relnotes/CURRENT/installation/sparc64/index.html > Reading that one can use the ISO's loader instead, I tried my luck with > the loader from the 7.0 .iso and by loading the kernel over tftp by hand > I was able to boot it. After loading the kernel, the system can't mount > the nfs-root though and that I cannot specify by hand it seems. Are you getting any errors when you try to mount the nfsroot? I'd suggest sniffing the mount attempt, and then make sure it's trying to mount exactly what your bootp or dhcpd configuration is using. Royce -- Royce D. Williams - http://royce.ws/ The future is no more uncertain than the present. - Walt Whitman