Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 09:40:11 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: netbooting 3000/400 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910110939330.91778-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <199910102007.WAA62642@yedi.iaf.nl>
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On Sun, 10 Oct 1999, Wilko Bulte wrote: > As Doug Rabson wrote ... > > On Sat, 9 Oct 1999, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > > > I know that this is sort-of a known problem, but I hope to find people > > > with strong memories to help me ;-) > > > > > > Situation: DEC3000/400 "Sandpiper" doing a BOOTP netboot: > > > > > > ... > > > > > > The first thing I had to do is port (well, quick hack) NetBSD's setnetbootinfo > > > for use on FreeBSD as it is missing from the source tree. This was needed > > > because the Sandpiper's SRM did not send the MAC address as part of the > > > boot device name. But a hardcoded MAC address did not solve the issue, > > > the boot device name string returned "BOOTP 0 7 0 0 0 2 CORE-IO" > > > is one field short from what netboot expects. The last field is the device > > > to boot from. I *guess* it needs to be EZ0 but I could be wrong. > > > > > > As for a different SRM version: the latest (V7.0) is not doing BOOTP > > > correctly at all so it looks that one is out. > > > > > > Are there people on this list that have successfully booted a DEC3000 using > > > netboot? If so, which SRM version did you use (assuming there is a working > > > one, which I doubt) or did you hack netboot to make this happen? > > > > I think Andrew had one netbooting at one time. Perhaps there is some newer > > He did, but his memory is a bit dim ;-) > > > firmware you could try? > > Well, the latest (7.0) fails miserably with BOOTP. Apparantly it got > worse during the later revs. :/ What a drag. You could just hack the living daylights out of the boot code to make a custom bootstrap I guess. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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