netbooting FreeBSD/sparc64?

[er...@cirr.com]

Is it possible to network boot FreeBSD/sparc64? I've not been
able to find ay directions on the process (actually, the needed
files -- I know how to netboot sparc[64]'s.. :)

The closest thing I've come up with is the 5.0-DP1 installation
notes, but the loader files listed there are long gone of the
ftp site.

Thanks,
Eric Schnoebelen

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[anth...@brainlink.com]

Eric,

You can check out something I wrote about a year ago about 5.0-DP2:
http://www.non-standard.net/freebsd/sparc64-nfsroot/sparc64-nfsroot.html

If you get the disc2 cd of 5.2 and use the loader from
http://non-standard.net/freebsd/sparc64-nfsroot/ you will probably get it
to work. That reminds me, i have to fix the link :)

-Anthony

[gle...@eyesbeyond.com]

On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 09:27:27PM -0600, Eric Schnoebelen wrote:
> Is it possible to network boot FreeBSD/sparc64? I've not been
> able to find ay directions on the process (actually, the needed
> files -- I know how to netboot sparc[64]'s.. :)

I have a Ultra 10 which netboots FreeBSD (5.2), so the answer is yes :)

> The closest thing I've come up with is the 5.0-DP1 installation
> notes, but the loader files listed there are long gone of the
> ftp site.

I just unpacked the installation sets I wanted onto the NFS server
I am using and then used the /boot/loader from that. Just copy it
into /tftpboot and then point DHCP to it and you should be fine.
You'll need to tweak things a little since sysinstall hasn't run
obviously.

Which reminds me, I should update to 5.2.1.

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[ha...@freebsd.org]

Eric Schnoebelen wrote:

> Is it possible to network boot FreeBSD/sparc64? I've not been
> able to find ay directions on the process (actually, the needed
> files -- I know how to netboot sparc[64]'s.. :)
>
> The closest thing I've come up with is the 5.0-DP1 installation
> notes, but the loader files listed there are long gone of the
> ftp site.

I'm running an U1 diskless. You basically need to setup rarp
(etc/ethers), dhcp and tftp. For tftp copy the sparc loader into the
tftp directory with the appropriate name (IP address).

harti