Re: Netboot X5000
Al <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.freebsd.devel.ppc |
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On 04/02/19 20:02, Justin Hibbits wrote: > On Thu, 31 Jan 2019 02:06:19 +0100 > Al<[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> After months of going in the wrong direction with this, I think I am >> finally on the right track. I came across: >> https://wiki.freebsd.org/powerpc/UBoot-Install I have successfully >> followed all the steps until where it says: "Once booted to netboot". >> It does not document how to set up a netboot for a uboot machine. And >> I have searched for hours looking for information on how to netboot >> an X5000 without success. Does anyone know where I could find some >> documentation on netbooting the X5000? >> >> Kind Regards, >> Al > Hi Al, > > I can't say I've setup a 'proper' netboot system, but when I was doing > my bringup for the X5000 (and writing that wiki page) my netboot > consisted of a isc-dhcp server and a tftp server with the kernel and > dtb files. The kernel at the time was a uImage, as demonstrated on the > wiki page. However, now it's possible (and I strongly encourage) to > use ubldr to boot the kernel. I will update the wiki page as soon as I > get the last piece of the puzzle committed for placing ubldr in the > right place at install time. > > An alternative would be to create a release image (make buildworld > buildkernel KERNCONF=QORIQ64 TARGET_ARCH=powerpc64; make -C release/ > cdrom TARGET_ARCH=powerpc64), put that image onto a USB stick and > "netbooting" ubldr (put ubldr on a tftp server, and boot that), and > setting the loader to boot from the USB stick. You might be able to > just boot straight to ubldr on the USB stick, too. > > - Justin > Hello Justin, I could not get it to make -C release/. It kept running out of disk space. This is an easy fix, but I decided to try one other thing first. I did an install to a thumb drive and booted with: |load usb 0:1 ||0x3ffffc0 amiga64.uImage load usb 0:1 3000000 cyrus.dtb bootm ||0x3ffffc0 - 3000000 It acted like it may have booted, but the screen was black. It may have failed to initialize the video, so I am not sure if I could call this a success. Is there documentation for ubldr? Kind Regards Al | _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ppc To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"