Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:23:21 -0800 From: Royce Williams <royce@alaska.net> To: Mauro Calderara <mcalderara@phys.ethz.ch> Cc: freebsd-sparc64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: netboot/install on sparc64 Message-ID: <48584769.40401@alaska.net> In-Reply-To: <485846A3.2060306@alaska.net> References: <979CB183-376B-45A9-893D-D5EE5307123E@phys.ethz.ch> <485846A3.2060306@alaska.net>
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Royce Williams wrote, on 6/17/2008 3:20 PM: > 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. There are also some ancient versions of the sparc64 loaders here, which might or might not work: http://people.freebsd.org/~murray/sparc64/install.html Royce -- Royce D. Williams - http://royce.ws/ A clever man commits no minor blunders. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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