[SunRescue] Diskless Booting Sun3/160 from Sparc4
Martin Frost
martin at dsres.com
Thu Sep 2 07:53:12 CDT 1999
"Creasey, Jon" wrote:
> When trying to do the above iv'e got the sun3 to get it's ip
> address and then load <HEX ADDRESS> from tftp server. <HEX ADDRESS>
> is linked to vmunix.sun from a sun3 that someone on this list archived
> into a tar file for me. It appears to load the file then crashes out
> with an exception 10 error.
You need a second-stage bootloader. This is what should be loaded by
tftp, and it in turn does the bootparam stuff and loads the kernel
via NFS. You should be able to use the one from SunOS or {Open,Net}BSD.
--m
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