Re: Net-installing SS20 & NFS woes (?)

[Michael <macallan%netbsd.org@localhost>]

Hello,

On Sun, 9 Aug 2020 15:05:59 -0400 (EDT)
Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost> wrote:

> > If you have an HME card you can boot from it and it shouldn't have
> > the negotiating problems described above.  
> 
> > Just make a devalias pointing at the hme, then boot hme.  
> 
> If my experience with disks is any indication, you don't even need the
> devalias; you can just "boot /sbus/hme" or whatever it shows up in the
> OBP device tree as.  (I don't have one handy right now or I'd try it
> and give an actual string.)  "boot /sbus/espdma/esp/sd@1,0" has worked
> for me often enough, to boot from a disk on an Sbus SCSI card.

Yeah, the devalias is purely for convenience.
I use netbooting in order to quickly test kernel changes, and I'm way
too lazy to type boot /iommu/sbus/SUNW,hme over and over. Less
potential for typos too.

have fun
Michael