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.