[rescue] Sun 3/110 Netbooting

David Brownlee abs at absd.org
Wed Jun 4 15:21:28 CDT 2014


On 4 June 2014 00:46, Earl Baugh <earl at baugh.org> wrote:

> Been meaning to update (and answer a few questions)
>
> 1) Yes, I'll be able to (at some point) get the images out there for
> others.   My goal would actually be to generate a boot disk image on the SD
> card and make that available so folks could "bootstrap" from that... since
> I imagine that's going to be the easiest for folks going forward.   Esp if
> the SCSI2SD card works well.
>
> 1A) If folks want access to the original tape images, that will take a bit
> longer to get them to a share of some point..
>
> 2) I've got a kernel (the NetBSD RAMDISK version) downloading and getting
> to a more "usable" starting point.  I'm now where I need attempt to format
> and partition the disk... just ran out of time the other night... hoping to
> get further this week sometime.
>
> 3) I'm working from the latest NetBSD version, btw.
>

Did you have a dmesg of a GENERIC NetBSD boot on the box to hand?
Specifically to confirm the network attaches as 'ie0 at obio0 addr 0x0C0000
ipl 3'

I'd like to feed back a tweak to the DISKLESS kernel config so it works on
3/110 as well as 3/{50,60} :)


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