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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!metro!metro!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!nsw.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!imci3!newsfeed.internetmci.com!portal.gmu.edu!hearst.acc.Virginia.EDU!news-server.ncren.net!concert!relay.ga.unc.edu!newton.uncg.edu!not-for-mail From: rjadams@prin.uncg.edu (Robert Adams) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Trying to boot sun 3/50 off of a solaris box Date: 29 May 1996 08:28:09 GMT Organization: The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Lines: 41 Message-ID: <4oh1qp$7au@newton.uncg.edu> References: <4oecg2$s7c@newton.uncg.edu> <4ogr5b$6ap@newton.uncg.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: irc.uncg.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 BETA-950824-color PL0] Robert Adams (rjadams@prin.uncg.edu) wrote: : : I wish to boot a diskless sun 3/50 (netbsd 1.1) off of a solaris 2.5 box : : This doesnt seem to be working.. : okay, due to a kindly suggestion from Andrew Gillham, i got lots further.. : I got the bootloader from sunos 4.1.1 (from the xkernel distributions) : now NetBSD boots! : : almost.. (it gets as far as:) : root on 192.168.1.1:/export/morden/root : swap on 192.168.1.1:/export/morden/swap : exec /sbin/init: error 13 : init: not found : panic no init problem solved. you must export rhe root fs with root permissions, to recap: in order to make a sun 3/50 boot off of a solaris 2.5 machine you need to: 1) get the xkernel sources, and use the sunos boot loader from it. 2) compile rpc.bootparamd from the xkernel sources (under solaris you need to, change "linux/nfs.h" in the .x file to be <nfs/nfs.h> and comment the ioctl line out of the resulting rpc.bootparamd to get it to compile.) 3) make sure the rootfs for your sun is expored to the client with root access. (and be sure to remember to do MAKEDEV in the /dev dir.. i forgot to do that and it confused me.. its always the simple things that will get you fater complex problems are solved. :^) Hope this will help anyone else out the who has the same problems. I do beleive there is a bug somewhere tho.. as the netbsd code will neither use the solaris bootparamd or the rarpd to get its boot info, this probably should be looked into, Robert -- Robert Adams Robert_Adams@uncg.edu