Re: need help with boot forth

2008-07-18 Thread Victor Sudakov
Victor Sudakov wrote:
> 
> I am setting up a jumpstart server for networked FreeBSD installation
> (tftp only). My /tftpboot/boot/loader.rc is rather simple:
> 
> load /boot/kernel
> load /boot/acpi.ko
> load -t mfs_root /boot/mfsroot
> set vfs.root.mountfrom="ufs:/dev/md0c"
> boot
> 
> It works fine with a custom kernel (with statically compiled in device 
> hints). 
> 
> However, I would like to use a stock kernel, so I need to tftp download
> device.hints and set the kernel environment accordingly. Could you
> please help me with the loader.rc code that will do that?

I have found out that putting device hints into loader.rc in the form
of loader environment variables:

set hint.fdc.0.at="isa"
set hint.fdc.0.port="0x3F0"
set hint.fdc.0.irq="6"
set hint.fdc.0.drq="2"
set hint.fd.0.at="fdc0"
set hint.fd.0.drive="0"
set hint.fd.1.at="fdc0"
set hint.fd.1.drive="1"
set hint.ata.0.at="isa"
set hint.ata.0.port="0x1F0"
set hint.ata.0.irq="14"

does the job. 

However, if some Forth guru shows me how to tftp download and parse
/tftpboot/boot/device.hints, I'd be most grateful.

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Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
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need help with boot forth

2008-07-15 Thread Victor Sudakov
Colleagues,

I am setting up a jumpstart server for networked FreeBSD installation
(tftp only). My /tftpboot/boot/loader.rc is rather simple:

load /boot/kernel
load /boot/acpi.ko
load -t mfs_root /boot/mfsroot
set vfs.root.mountfrom="ufs:/dev/md0c"
boot

It works fine with a custom kernel (with statically compiled in device hints). 

However, I would like to use a stock kernel, so I need to tftp download
device.hints and set the kernel environment accordingly. Could you
please help me with the loader.rc code that will do that?

Thank you in advance.

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Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
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