Subject: netboot kernel
To: netbsd-help <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Matt Herzog <mherzog@mediaone.net>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 02/23/2001 12:59:30
> http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/network/netboot/local.install.html#ramdisk
> This one is no trouble at all. Place the ramdisk kernel at the root of
> your nfs mountpoint, named netbsd. This ramdisk kernel contains the
> /dev entries and install tools. The bootloader should just load this
> kernel and immediately start the install tools.
What file should I use? The netbsd.ram.aout.gz would seem to be the
likely candidate since I have a Sparc10 client. Does it need renaming?
Does it need to be gunzipped? I gunzipped it and renamed it netbsd and
put it inside:
/export/numbat/root
When I attempt to boot it, the bootloader complains,
netbsd: Inappropriate file type or format
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