Re: Netbooting a C110

Alexander Frolkin <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.openbsd.hppa
Message-ID <20030509190319.GA15753@avfnet>
On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 12:52:43PM -0600, Todd C. Miller wrote:
> > 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).
> You should be able to boot from a disk on the narrow scsi, just
> not the fast-wide differential.

Mine's the latter. I also have a tape drive and that seems to work
fine.

> >  (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.)
> Isn't the lif33.fs file what you need?

Is there a way to tell the kernel to mount root via NFS using just
lif33.fs?


Thanks,

Alex

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