Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 03:15:07 +0200 From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely12.cicely.de> To: Stephen Jones <smj@cirr.com> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: netbooting an install kernel Message-ID: <20040618011506.GQ80675@cicely12.cicely.de> In-Reply-To: <7F2587D8-C0C1-11D8-9CD8-000393DAF5EC@cirr.com> References: <200406151857.i5FIv5Wu028133@egsner.cirr.com> <20040616074051.GJ32239@interwoven.com> <C5F174A5-C02B-11D8-958B-000393DAF5EC@cirr.com> <20040617105113.GZ68640@cicely12.cicely.de> <7F2587D8-C0C1-11D8-9CD8-000393DAF5EC@cirr.com>
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On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 05:50:30PM -0700, Stephen Jones wrote: > > On Jun 17, 2004, at 3:51 AM, Bernd Walter wrote: > >So we have no device.hints in place. > >Do we already have a way for loading hints in case of netbooting? > >Otherwise the netbooting kernel needs hardcoded hints. > >AFAIK my last netbooting alpha was still 4.x so I never run into > >that problem myself. > > I've not tried using the 4.x stuff, but its probably just to stick with > 5.2.1 if we could get a net-bootable install kernel. There is a > device.hints > file, but I'm not sure that it does any good. Anyway, let me know where > I could grab one, that would be great. OK netboot should work perfectly. After reviewing your original boot log it seems that you manualy booted the kernel - under normal conditions netboot should read his configuration including kernel and device.hints. Maybe something else with the loader scripts is wrong and cuts progress. What does your /boot contain? -- B.Walter BWCT http://www.bwct.de bernd@bwct.de info@bwct.de
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