Subject: Netbooting
To: None <port-i386@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Andreas Gustafsson <gson@araneus.fi>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/30/1997 19:46:45
I have an old '386 machine which I would like to use as a diskless
NetBSD 1.2 system.  Specifically, I would like it to boot it using a
boot PROM on the network card (NE2000 clone), not from a floppy.
I can burn my own PROMs; I just need some code to put in them.

I remember hearing that the code in /usr/src/sys/arch/i386/netboot/
doesn't work, at least not with an NE2000.  Is this correct, and if so,
what exactly is missing?

What would be the right way of getting this working?  Hacking on 
/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/netboot, building something new on top of
/usr/src/sys/lib/libsa, porting the FreeBSD netboot PROM, or what?
-- 
Andreas Gustafsson, gson@araneus.fi