From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Feb 17 10:23:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 215A437B6A5 for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 10:23:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: from yedi.iaf.nl (uucp@localhost) by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (8.9.2/8.9.2) with UUCP id TAA15279; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 19:19:41 +0100 (MET) Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA01465; Thu, 17 Feb 2000 19:16:34 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wilko) Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 19:16:34 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte To: Chris Csanady Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Netbooting.. Message-ID: <20000217191633.B1346@yedi.iaf.nl> References: <38AB2424.C4C9D80D@ameslab.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <38AB2424.C4C9D80D@ameslab.gov>; from cc@137.org on Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 04:26:44PM -0600 X-OS: FreeBSD yedi.iaf.nl 3.4-STABLE FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 04:26:44PM -0600, Chris Csanady wrote: > Ok, I have tried several things, but I have yet to get FreeBSD to boot > over the network. These are test machines, and I need to have more than > one OS on them. > > At first, I was trying bootp'ing the loader, but using a local filesystem > as the root. It looks like the loader was not intended to be used this > way though. > > Right now, I would be happy netbooting the entire system, but I can't get > this to work either. I am using the Feb 8 snapshot, and I continually > get the following: > > FreeBSD/alpha SRM net boot, Revision 0.1 > (jkh@beast.freebsd.org, Tue Feb 8 11:30:11 GMT 2000) > Memory: 131072 k > boot: ethernet address: 08:00:2b:86:77:45 > net_open: server addr: 147.155.137.1 > net_open: server path: /raid/diskless/ariel > . > . > Mounting root from nfs:147.155.137.1:/raid/diskless/ariel > no such device 'ariel' > setrootbyname failed > panic: nfs_mountroot: socreate(0000): 43 It's been a while ago that I experimented with netboot on alpha. I had similar problems IIRC. If only I remembered the details.. :( This was on a DEC3000/400 booting from a Miata BTW. -- Wilko Bulte Arnhem, The Netherlands WWW : http://www.tcja.nl The FreeBSD Project: http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message