Re: Netbooting a C110

Michael Shalayeff <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.openbsd.hppa
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Making, drinking tea and reading an opus magnum from Alexander Frolkin:
> 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?

boot -a

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