Subject: Re: Diskless boot weirdness
To: maximum entropy <entropy@zippy.bernstein.com>
From: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 05/19/1997 18:12:00
Suggestion: use the new boot blocks from -current. The old boot blocks
had the behavior you are mentioning hard wired in when booting from floppy.
maximum entropy writes:
>
> Hello...
>
> I have recently set up a machine to boot "diskless" from another
> machine. The diskless machine boots from a floppy with the netbsd
> bootblocks and a kernel on that floppy. The kernel was configured
> thus:
>
> config netbsd root on ? type nfs
>
> Everything seems to work, but there's one annoying feature...after the
> kernel has done its thing, it pauses and says:
>
> Insert file system floppy
>
> I then have to press return, and it continues booting off the network.
>
> This is rather annoying because I can't reboot this machine remotely,
> and I can't reboot it without plugging in a keyboard.
>
> Is there a way to prevent this pause when doing a netboot? Have I
> screwed something up?
>
> Thanks,
> entropy
>
> --
> entropy -- it's not just a good idea, it's the second law.