New go with the boot disks, mostly the same problems. I'm setting up an NFSroot with the old Slink disks, but I've forgotten how to make it boot over NFS again. I copied the vmlinuz file from the install into /tftpboot/<HEX IP address>.SUN4C and passed some boot paramaters.
|ok boot net root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=192.168.1.42:/mount/nfs/nfsroot/goober ip=192.168.1.50:192.168.1.42 |Boot device: /sbus/[EMAIL PROTECTED],c00000 File and args: root=/dev/nfs nfsroot=192.168.1.42:/mount/nfs/nfsroot/goober ip=192.168.1.50:192c4c00 |The file just loaded does not appear to be executable. |ok Could someone get me quickly fixed here, then I'll print out the instructions and try not to lose them this time?
Machine is a Sparc IPX with generic 4x16MB 36-bit SIMMS and OEM hard drive on serial console. 2000-01-06 images. Booted by TFTP, serial console supplied by minicom. Rebooted and supplied `TERM=vt102' to netboot to get rid of the slower colour/hi-graphics stuff. Not too bad. Cursor is one line above and one charcell behind the hilighted selection. But it is hilighted. Buttons have the cursor immediately after the button hilighted. Wishlist: Change the wording about the new ext2 `features'. Something like `do you wish to use these new features (not reccomended if you're going to use a 2.0 kernel), then the `yes' option will enable the features. The current wording smacks me like a double-negative. Now I go on to install the kernel and modules from `network'. I configure the network up. I leave the `network' install site as the default, and after a few minutes (with modem activity) get |nf_http_fetchfile :: couldn't open file |/target/tmp/sun4c/disks-1.44/rescue.bin for writing |Download of file disks-1.44/rescue.bin failed I'm still getting the `invalid argument' error when mounting by NFS. Though my NFS server tells me the mount was successful. I have a working floppy drive on my lintel again, so I'll try making bootfloppies in a little while. Long download on a 19.2k connection. Then I get this at the shell (with a typo): |# ae /etc/resolv/conf |S-Lang Error: Unknown Error Code |SLcurses_initscr: init failed And I'm locked except I can break to PROM. AND I forgot how to nfsrootboot linux on this thing. :/
