Subject: Re: boot without init.
To: David Gilbert <dgilbert@pci.on.ca>
From: matthew green <mrg@mame.mu.OZ.AU>
List: port-sparc
Date: 10/08/1995 22:07:13
   >>>>> "David" == David Brownlee <D.K.Brownlee@city.ac.uk> writes:
   
   David> 	Does 'boot netbsd -s' work?  (Or am I missing something?)
   
   	It does not.  It seems that maybe ufsboot is at fault here?  I
   havn't recompiled and reinstalled it since I got the first version
   that worked with my hardware.  Anyways... I was able to net
   boot... but that ability will disappear in a week.

this depends on your prom.  older proms (i know that v1.3 does this)
interprets the `boot netbsd -s' as 'boot the file "bsd" from the "net"
device with the args "-s"'.  the 2.3 and 2.4 once i've got with me
now do it properly as 'boot "netbsd" with args "-s"'.

you can work around the older proms with `boot disk netbsd -s' (or
disk3, or what ever your boot device is).  it's annoying, but, there
isn't much else you can do, save 'ln netbsd vmunix'.