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Date:      Sat, 19 Feb 2000 22:30:54 -0700
From:      "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@kdm.org>
To:        Chris Csanady <cc@137.org>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Netbooting..
Message-ID:  <20000219223054.B82975@panzer.kdm.org>
In-Reply-To: <38AF79AE.15C1FE6E@ameslab.gov>; from cc@137.org on Sat, Feb 19, 2000 at 11:20:46PM -0600
References:  <38AB2424.C4C9D80D@ameslab.gov> <20000219193644.A81810@panzer.kdm.org> <38AF79AE.15C1FE6E@ameslab.gov>

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On Sat, Feb 19, 2000 at 23:20:46 -0600, Chris Csanady wrote:
> "Kenneth D. Merry" wrote:
> > FWIW, I'm having similar problems with a DEC3000/300 box I'm trying to
> > netboot.  (It took me a while to figure out that I had to boot "ez0"
> > instead of "esa0" to get bootp instead of MOP.)

[ ... ]

> > I may try to track this down tomorrow.  It seems like it should be
> > solveable.  BTW, I'm running with -current as of ~February 12th, I think,
> > and I'm netbooting (bootp, tftp and NFS) off a FreeBSD/alpha box.
> 
> Do you have the bootp options in your kernel?  Drew pointed out that
> I need these as well as the NFS_ROOT option in my kernel.
> 
> options         BOOTP           # Use BOOTP to obtain IP address/hostname
> options         BOOTP_NFSROOT   # NFS mount root filesystem using BOOTP info
> options         BOOTP_NFSV3     # Use NFS v3 to NFS mount root
> options         BOOTP_COMPAT    # Workaround for broken bootp daemons.
> options         BOOTP_WIRED_TO=dc0 # Use interface fxp0 for BOOTP

Oops, no, I don't have those.  It makes sense that I would need them,
though. :)

> Also, it turned out that dc0 does not autodetect the media correctly on my
> boxes.  If you have xp1000's, you will probably need the included patches.

Nah, this is a fairly old box with a 10BaseT-only Lance ethernet interface.

I haven't had any trouble with the dc0 driver detecting the media on a
433au box.  Although I do have the media type hard-coded in SRM, I think.

What patches are you talking about?

> Aside from the Irix 6.5.4 nfs server, things work fine.  I can panic it
> consistently with a make world though, even if /usr/obj is local..

Cool, thanks.  I'll give those options a whirl tomorrow.

Ken
-- 
Kenneth Merry
ken@kdm.org


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