Date: Sat, 9 Oct 1999 21:04:24 +0200 (CEST) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org (FreeBSD-alpha mailing list) Subject: netbooting 3000/400 Message-ID: <199910091904.VAA07147@yedi.iaf.nl>
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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: >>> boot ez0 INIT-S-CPU... INIT-S-RESET_TC... INIT-S-ASIC... INIT-S-MEM... INIT-S-NVR... INIT-S-SCC... INIT-S-NI... INIT-S-SCSI... INIT-S-ISDN... INIT-S-TC1... AUDIT_BOOT_STARTS ... AUDIT_BOOT_REQ Host server IP address is 192.168.200.1 AUDIT_BSERVER_FOUND AUDIT_LOAD_BEGINS AUDIT_LOAD_DONE Console: SRM firmware console VMS PAL rev: 0x100010530 OSF PAL rev: 0x20123 Switch to OSF PAL code succeeded. FreeBSD/alpha SRM net boot, Revision 0.1 (root@alpine.iaf.nl, Mon Jul 12 05:13:52 CEST 1999) Memory: 65536 k netbbinfo valid: force = 0, ea = 08:00:2b:3c:61:45 boot: boot device name does not contain ethernet address. boot: using hard-coded ethernet address. boot: ethernet address: 08:00:2b:3c:61:45 prom_init: open failed: 7 Boot device name was: "BOOTP 0 7 0 0 0 2 CORE-IO" Your firmware may be too old to network-boot NetBSD/Alpha, or you might have to hard-code an ethernet address into your network boot block with setnetbootinfo(8). ?05 HLT INSTR PC= 00000000.2000003C PSL= 00000000.00000007 >>> 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? Wilko -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands - Powered by FreeBSD - |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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