Re: Fail to boot from snapshot bsd.rd on T1000

[email protected] wrote:
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> No idea. However, I was almost at the point of pulling up diskless(8), at
> some point I should work out how to netboot this thing anyway.

I would have recommended Net booting before pulling the disk, as on 
sun's it is usually fairly straight forward (you might need to 
tcpdump(8) the traffic to work out what name to give the files), but it 
is all well documented in diskless(8) :~)

> As a completely random thought, it occurs to me: This is my mirror server.
> I have all kernels for all arches for 4.4 and 4.3 in the big FFS2 data
> partition. If I hadn't had an obsd, and had managed to work out the right
> /pci@7c0/pci@0/pci@8/scsi@2/disk@0,0 incantation, could I have used a
> release kernel?

I'll leave the OpenProm incantations to someone more knowledgeable...

Fred