Netbooting a C110
Alexander Frolkin <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.openbsd.hppa |
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| Message-ID | <20030509184636.GA3918@avfnet> |
Hello,
I have a C110, and I've discovered that the latest snapshot boots to a
command prompt, although it can't access the disks. While support for
disks is under development, I'd like to get the machine to netboot
(off another OpenBSD machine).
From what I can see, I need a LIF image containing a kernel with
``config bsd root on nfs swap on nfs''. I can theoretically cross
compile such a thing on my i386, but I haven't seen anything that I
can use to make a LIF image.
Hence, I have several questions.
(a) Is there a LIF image with such a kernel available for download
somewhere, that I've missed?
(b) Are the any tools to create LIF images? (How is lif33.fs created?)
(c) Is there a bootloader which can download a kernel via NFS and boot
it? (Such as those for sparc and hp300.)
(d) Is there a way to tell the kernel from the boot loader that I want
it to mount root via NFS? (So that I could just use the GENERIC or
RAMDISK kernels.)
Thanks a lot,
Alex
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