Subject: Re: Diskless booting - hp300
To: D'Arcy J.M. Cain <darcy@druid.net>
From: Kevin Currie <kcurrie@on.bell.ca>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 03/02/1997 22:10:30
I would like this information as well, if possible.
Thanks.
On Fri, 28 Feb 1997, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
> Well I'm stumped. I have been all over the web site and ftp server and
> cannot seem to get a hp300 booting diskless. I nfs mount the root and
> the swap and get right to the point where init should be running and it
> just dies. All I can do is ping it from the local ethernet.
>
> I notice that a bunch of documentation mentions SYS_UBOOT but all I
> could find is SYS_NBOOT. Is this the same thing? I appear to be
> well past that point anyway.
>
> Another possibility is that perhaps the GENERIC kernel can't do a
> diskless boot. There is a config file for DISKLESS but until I get
> this working I can't build it. Catch 22. Can someone out there
> with a hp300 compile a DISKLESS kernel for me, please? Just email
> me with details of where to pick it up by ftp.
>
> Any other suggestions gratefully accepted.
>
> Thanks.
>
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