On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 14:02:19 +0300, Valeriy E. Ushakov <uwe@ptc.spbu.ru>  
wrote:
> Booting off disk will probably require a small ext2fs partition to put
> the kernel on, as nettorm doesn't know anything about ufs.

Yep, I had the kernel on an ext3 partition.. but then what. The kernel  
can't do much by itself :)

Well, yesterday I found an old post in another newsgroup that said the  
kernel only supports the serial console, so I started experimenting with  
netbooting, setting up my tftp, dhcp and nfs servers.

Now I get as far as :

root device (default ne0):
dump device:
file system (default nfs):
root on ne0
nfs_boot: trying DHCP/BOOTP
nfs_boot: DHCP next-server: 10.1.61.4
nfs_boot: my_domain=patrix.org
nfs_boot: my_addr=10.1.61.100
nfs_boot: my_mask=255.255.0.0
nfs_boot: gateway=10.1.61.1
root on 10.1.61.4:/exports/client/root

and it's been stuck there for the past 10 hours (while I was sleeping).

/exports/client/root contains the untarred contents of 1.6.2 base.tgz,  
etc.tgz and comp.tgz. I've also created an etc/fstab  with the correct nfs  
root.

Not sure where to go from here, I'll continue looking into it later. I  
hope the NetBSD kernel can control the netwinder fan too...

Patrix.

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