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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsrelay.iastate.edu!news.iastate.edu!spiff.cc.iastate.edu!graphix From: graphix@iastate.edu (Kent A Vander Velden) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: rbootd Date: 3 Dec 96 04:02:58 GMT Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa Lines: 34 Message-ID: <graphix.849585778@spiff.cc.iastate.edu> References: <57830q$m1u@news.interlog.com> <57a4a4$ko1@news.bayarea.net> <32A1E2CA.41C67EA6@free.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: spiff.cc.iastate.edu In <32A1E2CA.41C67EA6@free.de> Rainer Kopietz <rainer@free.de> writes: >Hello, >Jason R. Thorpe wrote: >> The hp300 BOOTROM will automatically search for a network boot server. >> Hit the spacebar while the machine is running the self-test. Once the >> self-test is complete, the BOOTROM will display a menu of all >> possible boot devices. If the rbootd daemon is configured properly, >> it will appear in this menu. > I have a HP-Apollo 425e and tryed to use FreeBSD's rbootd. The HP told >me that it has the BOOTROM REV. 3.0. I am very confused about this >because I read in the installation manual that a network install >requires bootrom rev. C or later. >Now I'm wondering if my revision is an older or a newer one. Do you know >how the revisons are counted? >> What version of FreeBSD are you using? FreeBSD used to have a bug >> in its BPF that caused rbootd to not function properly. >Do you know which FreeBSD version has this bug in its BPF? I am using >the 2.1 Release. If I start the rbootd in its debug-mode. I get the >bootrequests and the answers printed out but I don't get a menu of the >possible boot devices. While I missed the start of this I assume that you are trying to boot an HP/NetBSD from a FreeBSD machine? I do this for an hp300 but had to use the NetBSD versions of rbootd and rarpd. -- Kent Vander Velden graphix@iastate.edu