Subject: Network booting?
To: der Mouse <mouse@Collatz.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
From: Tobias Weingartner <weingart@austin.BrandonU.CA>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 05/05/1995 11:02:02
In message <199505050001.UAA02963@Collatz.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>, der Mouse writes:
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> really intended to be release-ready yet. It's also possible that I've
> made some assumptions about diskless booting that are not generally
> valid, because I've seen NetBSD boot diskless on only the sun3 and
> sparc ports. (Essentially, I assume that the machine comes up with its
> hostname set, its principal network interface configured enough to talk
> to its server, and knowing where its root is mounted from.)
>
Ok, I thought that I had diskless booting down pat by now. However, the
kernel never seems to be invoked by the netboot program. Can anyone who
has a NetBSD-1.0/i386 box booting over the network with 'dosload', and
boot.bin from /sys/arch/i386/netboot, please tell me what they had to do
in order to get this working. I'd be most gratefull...
--Toby.
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