Date: Thu, 16 Mar 1995 21:26:31 -0800 (PST) From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com> To: babkin@hq.icb.chel.su (Serge A. Babkin) Cc: davidg@Root.COM, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Diskless booting - netboot.com problems? Message-ID: <199503170526.VAA14705@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <199503171508.KAA01942@hq.icb.chel.su> from "Serge A. Babkin" at Mar 17, 95 10:08:51 am
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> > >device is named ie0 instead of ed0. Correct this name in main.c to fix
> > >this problem (bit in this case it will work with 3C503 ONLY).
> >
> > This is not true. The ie driver does not work with the 3c503.
> >
> Sorry. You're right, I'm not right. Ie0 is 3c507. In this case
> I don't know why it doesn't works. But when I wrote support for 3c509 I
> got the same error until I fixed name of card. Moreover, this error
> explicitly means that NFS can't find the interface specified by
> the network boot.
Yes, there is evil code that know to look for "ed%d" in the disk-less
startup. Somebody needs to revise the netboot.[rc]om to pass the
interface name prefix ("ed" or "ie" ...) in the boot structure, and
use that instead.
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Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@login.dknet.dk> -- TRW Financial Systems, Inc.
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=> 'no rude people are relevant'
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