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Re: Netbooting a machine w/ a disk



Awesome.  Out of shear luck I did just that last night and started the
kernel compile before I went to bed.  Thanks for the confirmation :).

If I want to use RAIDframe in a RAID-1 setup, do I change the root
setting from sd0 to raid0?

-Dustin

On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 5:32 AM, Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost> 
wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 03:30:00AM -0600, Dustin Marquess wrote:
>> I got the system installed to the local hard drive.  Now I just don't
>> know how to boot it.  Using the kerninst netbsd.gz reloads the
>> installer (of course).  gzip'ing the netbsd from the kern-GERNERIC
>> package boots, but then asks where init it.  I'm assuming because it
>> doesn't know what the root filesystem is.  Where do I go from here? :)
>
> For a start you can boot -a the generic kernel, it then will ask for the
> root device and you can tell it your disk (wd0a or sd0a).
>
> Next step is to build a custom kernel with a simple change in the config
> file:
>
> in sys/arch/alpha/config/GENERIC search for this lines:
>
> config          netbsd  root on ? type ?
> #config         netbsd  root on sd0 type ffs
> #config         netbsd  root on ? type nfs
>
> and change them to:
>
> #config          netbsd  root on ? type ?
> config         netbsd  root on sd0 type ffs
> #config         netbsd  root on ? type nfs
>
> (maybe replace sd0 with wd0 if your root disk is IDE instead of SCSI)
>
> Then build a new kernel from this modified config file, copy it to /netbsd
> on your boot disk and also gzip it and put it on your tftp server.
>
> Martin
>


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