Re: netboot install of current

[Jean-Yves Migeon <jeanyves.migeon%free.fr@localhost>]

On Thu, 28 Apr 2011 13:25:38 +0200, Manuel Bouyer 
<bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost> wrote:
> Hello,
> so, how is one supposed to do a netboot install of NetBSD current 
> these
> days ? I'm doing:
> load tftp:miniroot.kmod
> boot tftp:netbsd
>
> with i386 GENERIC, the kernel can't exec init because it doesn't have
> EXEC_ELF32 included. With MONOLITHIC, the kernel doesn't mount the
> ramdisk because modules are not enabled ...

You are not alone. I have not found a solution to this, except by 
building a custom kernel with the ramdisk embedded for i386.

It's one of the reason why I asked for the GENERIC/MONOLITHIC modular 
stuff settlement some time ago (for i386 and amd64), but never received 
the ultimate decision of core@ on this (and as such: never brought 
GENERIC i386 up to it and "retire" MONOLITHIC).

IMHO, this should really get fixed before branching -6.

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Jean-Yves Migeon
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