Re: Netbooting a sparc64

[Eduardo Horvath <eeh%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Fri, 28 May 2010, DL wrote:

> Eduardo Horvath <eeh <at> NetBSD.org> writes:

> > Also I think you can skip the whole NFS mess and load the kernel using 
> > TFTP if you use "/tftp:netbsd-INSTALL.gz" for the filename.
> 
> Hey now that would make this job a lot simpler! Just to be clear... do you 
> mean
> that I would use that filename as a file option to be passed to ofwboot from 
> the
> OpenBoot prompt, i.e.
> ok  boot net:dhcp,192.168.1.2,ofwboot /tftp:netbsd-INSTALL.gz  ?

Yes.

> 
> Or do you mean that I would configure that filename in udhcpd.conf as an 
> option
> for the DHCP server to return when ofwboot makes the DHCP request, i.e.
> option tftp 192.168.1.2
> boot_file /tftp:netbsd-INSTALL.gz  ?
> 
> Is there any way to command ofwboot from the Boot: prompt after it is running 
> to
> retrieve netbsd-INSTALL.gz from the TFTP server?

At the ofwboot prompt you should be able to:

Boot: /tftp:netbsd-INSTALL.gz

I think based on the -current sources (YMMV).

Eduardo