Subject: Re: Miniroot boot problems
To: Ian Burrell <iburrell@znark.com>
From: Andrew Basterfield <list@lostgeneration.freeserve.co.uk>
List: port-sparc
Date: 06/04/2002 23:20:15
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On Tue, 04 Jun 2002 14:08:06 -0700
Ian Burrell <iburrell@znark.com> wrote:

> Andrew Basterfield wrote:
> > 
> > For a step by step guide to netbooting sparc please look here:
> > 
> > http://www.lostgeneration.freeserve.co.uk/sparc/netboot.html
> > 
> > this is sun4c biased but this is exactly the same for sun4m
> > 
> 
> I tried netbooting and had problems with it as described in my other 
> message. I got netbooting to work with Debian and OpenBSD but NetBSD
> is having trouble with my Sparc 10 accessing the root filesystem over
> NFS. Is it possible to append the root ramdisk to the kernel image?
> Because that seems to be what works with the other two OSes.
> 
> I am wondering why booting with the miniroot filesystem from a Debian 
> swap partition isn't working. Is there some incompatibility between
> how Linux and BSD write the disklabel?

My apologies I missed your first post :)

--Andrew

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