[rescue] Re: Sun 3/60 SunOS 4.1.1 netboot question

[brian wheeler]

On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 19:52, Matthew Fredette wrote:
> > I'm thinking about installing SunOS 4.1.1 on my Sun 3/60.  Its currently
> > got NetBSD on it (it works, but where's the *love*?) and I've been
> > trying to netboot it into SunOS to no avail.  I've downloaded all the
> > files from the Sun3 Archive (www.sun3arc.org) but there doesn't seem to
> > be a net boot program.  
> 
> In the sun3arc SunOS 4.1 sun3_kvm.tar.Z, you want stand/boot.sun3 and
> stand/vmunix.  boot.sun3 is the netboot program.  I test-booted these
> on my 3/60 today using a NetBSD server, but with my network root empty 
> except for the kernel it didn't get much farther.
> 

Very nice.  Thanks!  I knew it had to be somewhere!



> sun3arc also has SunOS 3.5, however it looks like 3.5 can only do a
> Network Disk (ND) type netboot, which is hard to set up nowadays - 
> SunOS itself was the only OS capable of acting as a real ND server.  
> (However, you can at least load the 3.5 kernel, found as ./vmunix in 
> sun3_pub.tar.gz, over the network using the 4.1 boot.sun3.  It dies 
> trying to mount the Network Disk root.)
> 
> > Sadly, its a 1.9 rom, so it won't boot from a CD or I'd tinker with that
> > method.  I'd rather not mess up my current NetBSD installation (yet) so
> > netbooting seems like the way to go.
> 
> With a Sun OEM drive that serves 512 sectors by default (mine is a
> <SONY, CD-ROM CDU-8012, 3.1d>), I can boot my rev 1.9 3/60.  See
> http://www.pimpworks.org/sun/cdrom.html for the Sun CD-ROM FAQ, which 
> lists which drives can serve 512 sectors by default to boot Suns, and 
> http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/sun3/faq.html for information on which
> monitor boot device to use given your machine and ROM rev.
> 

I'm going to have to try that!  All the info I could find shows that 1.9
won't boot from CD...

Thanks!
Brian




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