Subject: Re: netboot via native bootloader
To: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp>
From: Andy Ruhl <acruhl@gmail.com>
List: port-cobalt
Date: 10/26/2007 14:16:44
On 10/26/07, Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp> wrote:
> Today I've been trying to add netboot support to the cobalt
> native bootloader, using a standalone tulip (2114x Ethernet)
> driver for sandpoint which has been committed by Tohru Nishimura:
> http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/sys/arch/sandpoint/stand/netboot/tlp.c
>
> After ~six hour debugging, now it can load a GENERIC kernel
> via tlp0 and bootp properly :-)

Very cool. I've never netbooted a kernel with the bootloader, is it
just a regular bootp/dhcpd type of boot?

Andy