[2793] in Release_7.7_team
cnboot for 9.0
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Garry Zacheiss)
Mon Jun 18 13:05:05 2001
Message-Id: <200106181705.NAA09178@e40-spare-sun.mit.edu>
To: release-team@MIT.EDU, miki@MIT.EDU
cc: ops@MIT.EDU
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 13:05:02 -0400
From: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
I have a working cnboot on a floppy that I've used to
successfully install a sun4m machine from sunburn:/var/sunblade.mini.
It looks like we won't need to run a seperate install server for sun4m
machines to install at 9.0.
What I've built has one outstanding problem: it doesn't read the
cnboot.defaults file off of the floppy. I've tracked this down to code
missing from opcom_parse_defaults() which is now in
stand/lib/fs/nfs/mac.c (it had previously been in
stand/lib/fs/nfs_inet/network_open.c).
Is it worth my time to port this code forward, or can we live
without reading the defaults file? The binary will still have an
install server IP hardcoded into it, which is all that the build we tftp
for booting the ultras has as well.
ops, miki: I replaced /var/sunblade.mini/kernel/misc/nfs_dlboot
with a module I built with our changes in it; we had previously only
replaced the 64 bit kernel module in kernel/misc/sparcv9/.
Garry
