1.  There's some articles in the archive of this mailing list that have a
reference to a kernel and an install kernel that work.  Also, if you build
-current from last Friday, it will work.

2.  I network booted ofwboot.elf using TFTP ("boot enet:0 -a" from
openfirmware prompt) and then loaded the install kernel from a NFS mounted
disk - I believe that's the default setting when you network boot
ofwboot.elf, so you don't have to type anything at the boot prompt.  Of
course, the install kernel has it's own root filesystem built in to the
memory disk.

3.  I used an older D-Link card with a DEC chipset on it.

4. Yes, you have to have FFS and a kernel on ultra0 before that boot command
will work.

Gregory


> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Cliff Neighbors [SMTP:cliff@allegronetworks.com]
> Sent:	Monday, June 05, 2000 10:37 PM
> To:	'Greg Kritsch'
> Subject:	RE: NFS boot,root,install
> 
> greg, 
> 
> thanks for your reply.  please indulge me in a couple follw-on questions: 
> 
> 1) if 1.4.2-release would not run at all, which kernel did you end up
> using? 
> 
> 2) what method did you use to install NetBSD, specifically 
>    where was your root filesystem? 
>         a) cdrom 
>         b) NFS 
>         c) ??? 
> 
> 3) which PCI card did you use?  it seems to me that only a couple 
>    of network cards are supported in the generic kernel... 
> 
> 4) "boot enet:0 ultra0:0"  will only work _after_ installing, right? 
>    what I'd really like to know is how you got installed to begin with. 
> 
> I appreciate any advice you can pass along!!! 
> thanks, 
> 
>         -cliff- 
> 
> --- 
> cliff neighbors 
> cliff@allegronetworks.com 
> 408-281-5532 
> --- 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message----- 
> From: Greg Kritsch [ <mailto:greg@evertz.com>] 
> Sent: Saturday, June 03, 2000 7:49 AM 
> To: 'port-macppc@netbsd.org' 
> Subject: RE: NFS boot,root,install 
> 
> 
> I installed much the same machine about a week ago.  The 1.4.2-release 
> kernel would not run for me at all. 
> 
> I think your problem is this: the on-board ethernet is not (fully)
> supported 
> yet, and not built in to the kernel.  I had to put in a PCI ethernet card 
> for the kernel to use after booting.  On startup there was a line about 
> Apple GMAC ethernet being "not configured". 
> 
> I have another machine running, and the correct thing to network boot it
> is 
> to type "fxp0" at the boot device prompt, so it's not wrong that you're 
> getting to that prompt.  I'm not going to even try guessing how the boot 
> device is supposed to be passed. 
> 
> From openfirmware, I use "boot enet:0 ultra0:0" to start my system up.
> The 
> network boot loads ofwboot.elf using TFTP, and I installed NetBSD on
> ultra0, 
> so that's where ofwboot picks up the kernel. 
> 
> Hope this helps you. 
> 
> Gregory 
> 
> (My apologies for using outlook, it's not by choice). 
> 
> > -----Original Message----- 
> > From: Cliff Neighbors [SMTP:cliff@allegronetworks.com] 
> > Sent: Friday, June 02, 2000 8:09 PM 
> > To:   'port-macppc@netbsd.org' 
> > Subject:      NFS boot,root,install 
> > 
> > I have a new G4 (400MHz, OpenFirmware 3) and I am trying to install 
> > NetBSD-1.4.2 over NFS, 
> > but I can't get through the initial boot-up.  ofwboot loads in the
> kernel 
> > over NFS ok 
> > but when the kernel starts coming up it can't figure out what its root 
> > device is, 
> > apparently a) cpu_rootconf() -> findroot() fails to determine the 
> > booted_device 
> > (cpu_rootconf says "boot device: <unknown>") and b) setroot() ->
> getdisk() 
> > offers the option to 
> > "use one of: halt" (!).  from looking at setroot()  it would seem in
> that 
> > NFS is handled 
> > as a special case and getdisk() should not even be called if root is
> NFS. 
> > 
> > FWIW, I get the same result with both BOOTP and DHCP on the server side.
> 
> > 
> > it seems like the rootpath property of /chosen in OF is supposed to be 
> > used to pass 
> > the root device path between ofwboot and the kernel, and failing that
> the 
> > kernel tries 
> > to revert to the boot-device property of /options in OF, or something
> like 
> > that? 
> > 
> > any suggestions on how to specify NFS root to the kernel would be most 
> > welcome. 
> > 
> > thanks, 
> >         -cliff- 
> > 
> > --- 
> > cliff neighbors 
> > allegro networks, inc. 
> > cliff@allegronetworks.com 
> > 408-281-5532 
> > --- 
> > 
> > 
>