Subject: Re: Netboot on an old Indigo - a bit lost
To: None <port-sgimips@NetBSD.org>
From: Simon van der Linden <ifmy@geekbox.be>
List: port-sgimips
Date: 11/22/2006 07:43:01
On Tue, 2006-11-21 at 12:04 -0500, Stephen M. Rumble wrote:
> Quoting Simon van der Linden <ifmy@geekbox.be>:
> 
> > It's really odd. In your example, yadayada should be the filename, isn't
> > it? But whatever this name is, my SGI always retrieve netbsd-sgimips
> > from my TFTP server. And... then the filename is diplayed on the screen
> > (Obtaining /file from server) Finally, the results are the same.
> 
> Yes, it's a filename. If your bootp server is specifying the filename  
> explicitly, perhaps the prom will ignore the user-supplied input. If  
> you're using dhcpd you can comment out the 'filename' directive and  
> see what happens.

Strange, because I didn't have such a line in my dhcpd.conf.

> > console=g
> > I don't use a serial console, I have a VGA screen attached directly to
> > the station.
> 
> Technically that should work. If you're using a VGA monitor you must  
> have an LG1 framebuffer, which we don't support. However, you should  
> still see output via the prom routines.

What does "we don't support" mean? isn't it working at all?
What kind of output should I see via PROM routines? I don't understand
really well...

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Simon van der Linden <ifmy@geekbox.be>