Subject: Re: ofwboot diskless boot problem?
To: Chris Ross <cross@distal.com>
From: Andrey Petrov <petrov@netbsd.org>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 07/09/2004 12:37:29
On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 02:39:38PM -0400, Chris Ross wrote:
> 
>   The ofwboot (from -current as of yesterday) seems not to
> work as I expect it too.  I'm booting a sparc64, and
> running rarpd, dhcpd and NFS from another sparc64 on
> a local network.
> 
>   When I name the kernel "netbsd", it works fine.
> However, when I gzip the kernel, it doesn't ever
> load it.  The boot messages suggest that it's trying
> the documented list of names to try, but the error
> message is always the same, saying that it failed
> to load ...../netbsd.  Setting filename in dhcpd.conf
> appears to also have no effect at all.
> 
>   Anyone else see this?  This may not be a sparc64
> bug, but being an ofwboot bug, I didn't know of a
> better place to start this...
> 

I use quite old ofwboot, and it boots netbsd.gz and whatever
file you tell him over rarp/bootparamd all right.

I'll check newer ofwboot when I get a chance.

	Andrey