On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 10:47:26 -0800
Michael Wolfson <michael@nosflow.com> wrote:

> None of them are network boot loaders that could be used to bootstrap
> a kernel from SCSI disk (say, installed from another platform).
The current boot loaders can not switch boot devices during boot. I.e.
if you loaded the bootloader via network, you have to load the kernel
via network too. You can pass "-a" to the kernel and mount a disk
partition from a net loaded kernel. For netbooting you need a LIF image
containing the bootloader as first file and the kernel as second. For
booting from disk you have to install sdboot with "disklabel -B" and
"boot" should be copied to "/boot.hp700".

Unfortunately there is an evil kernel bug that prevents booting from
disk to work. You will be able to load a kenel from disk, but it will
get trouble accessing the disk later when it wants to mount "/".

> Also, it might be handy to also run:
> nbhp700-mkboot -v /export/gecko/root/usr/mdec/boot netboot.lif
This is of no use. All you can do with this is to load the boot loader
itself. You will not be able to load any kernel with this LIF file.
--=20


tsch=FC=DF,
       Jochen

Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/