Thanks for success report!

On Thu, Sep 26, 2002 at 09:51:07PM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> It seems the miniroot.fs image for NetBSD/sparc64 1.6 is corrupt.  I
> have been able to successfully netboot a SunFire V100, but am unable to
> get it to even begin to load the miniroot image, as I noted in a post
> the other day.

That's unlikely, I tried that very miniboot image and it works all right
on ultra2. I'd suspect ofwboot in this failure.

> 
> Note that it seems impossible to pass the filename properly to ofwboot,
> at least when using BOOTPARAMS.  I had to put the kernel in the NFS
> server's directory as "netbsd".  Attempts to boot with any different
> filename simply resulted in a "Boot:" prompt and when I failed to type
> the correct filename and then hit return it tried to boot what I typed
> and then fell back to trying to boot the alternate kernel names starting
> with "netbsd.gz" IIRC.  During this process the ofwboot program seemed
> impervious to BREAK signals (i.e. LOM "break" commands).

'works for me' on different hardware, so ofwboot might be under suspicion.


	Andrey