Subject: Re: netbooting NetBSD-1.4.2 on i386
To: Dima Veselov <root@lich.phys.spbu.ru>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@asim.lip6.fr>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 03/09/2001 11:21:36
On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 12:09:57AM +0300, Dima Veselov wrote:
> Hello there!
> 
> >> kernel config was DISKLESS - I only changed it for network card
> >> driver.
> >> last part of dmesg is:
> >> biomask 0 netmask 400 ttymask 402
> >> boot device: ep0
> >> cannot mount root, error = 49
> >> root device (default ep0):
> MB> I assume you have the rigth bootparam server running ?
> 
> I am using standard rpc.bootparamd from NetBSD-1.4.2 distribution
> 
> MB> Do you have "options NFS_BOOT_BOOTPARAM" in the kernel config file ?
> 
> No. Because no FAQs or manuals or DISKLESS config file contains info
> about these options. Searching sources (I'm not a master in C) I found
> opt_nfs_boot.h. This header-file contains
> /* option `NFS_BOOT_RWSIZE' not defined */
> /* option `NFS_BOOT_OPTIONS' not defined */
> /* option `NFS_BOOT_TCP' not defined */
> /* option `NFS_BOOT_GATEWAY' not defined */
> /* option `NFS_BOOT_BOOTPARAM' not defined */
> /* option `NFS_BOOT_BOOTP' not defined */
> /* option `NFS_BOOT_DHCP' not defined */.
> Now I trying to compile new kernel with this options turned on, but I
> doesn't know which of them I need. May be you can tell me? Or is
> anywere manual or FAQ about these options?

They're documented in the options(4) man page.
If you're using bootparam to give the client its IP config,
"NFS_BOOT_BOOTPARAM" should be enouth.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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