Subject: Re: pxe booting netbsd-4.0 on a soekris net4501
To: Jasper Wallace <jasper@pointless.net>
From: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/15/2007 18:17:51
On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 03:14:21PM +0100, Jasper Wallace wrote:
> It looks as if netbsd-4.0 dosn't build pxeboot_ia32_com0.bin by default. I 
> tried pxeboot_ia32.bin, but didn't get anything out of the kernel (the 
> usual 3775212+5222852+179092=0x8c1b0c loading stuff appeared, but no 
> copyright message).
> 
> Is pxeboot_ia32_com0.bin not being built cos the non-com0 should just cope 
> these days?

I think you turn pxeboot_ia32.bin into pxeboot_ia32_com0.bin with

  installboot -e -v -o speed=57600,console=com0 pxeboot_ia32.bin

or similar...

Cheers,

Patrick