Subject: Re: mysterious netbooting
To: David S. Miller <davem@abacaxis.rutgers.edu>
From: Theo de Raadt <deraadt@fsa.ca>
List: port-sparc
Date: 12/11/1994 12:30:47
> In the latest sup a GENERIC_SCSI3 kernel that I compiled
> half-way during the boot decided to start netbooting on le0.
Don't use "boot netbsd generic" yet, I haven't finished making it
work.
> I also
> notice that the new scsi changes make the boot up probes do some kind
> of correction on my disks and the label for each disk gets printed
> out.
Huh?
> The netboot attempt that netbsd made was real intelligent as
> it was able to discern the swap device to use over the net and
> everything. Weird.
NFS diskless booting has been in there for quite some time. It's great
to have; it greatly simplifies porting NetBSD to new platforms.