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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