> I'm trying to do a 3.9 diskless boot of a Sun Netra T1 AC200 from an OpenBSD > 3.8 i386 server. I have followed through diskless(8) and am able to boot > bsd.rd from the server. Trying to boot bsd (using 'boot net') fails towards > the end of loading the kernel: [...] > I realized that I hadn't set up /dev on my netboot root filesystem so went > back to the server to execute './MAKEDEV all' but hit errors; perhaps > because of trying to run MAKEDEV from i386 to create devices for sparc64?:
You need to either use a 3.8 sparc64 MAKEDEV, or use a more recent sh on your server - recent MAKEDEV relies on improvements which were not in 3.8. Or you could netboot bsd.rd, get a shell, mount the nfs filesystem, and run the sparc64 MAKEDEV there. Miod
