Re: OpenBSD 3.5 on HP PA-RISC
From: Hugo Villeneuve (hugo_at_EINTR.net)
Date: 06/23/04
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Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 03:23:46 GMT
spam@controlq.com wrote:
> The last time I installed OpenBSD, was 2.8 on an intel box. As I have an
> HP9000 712/60 (Bootrom version 2.0 (BOOT_ADMIN>)), I figured it was high
> time that I put a fresh version on the box, and tried it out again. I'm a
> little confused, however.
>
> While the install doc has info for net-booting, I've had little success
> (either with rbootd or dhcpd/bootp). The dhcpd sees the request, and
My understanding is that rbootd is for those machine that don't have the
BOOT_ADMIN prompt. So you can't use it.
So you have to use bootp/dhcpd.
> grants an IP address, but there seems to be a tftpd glitch, and no attempt
> to boot the lif35.fs is made. Hmmm ... I've configured the host machine
> to serve up tftpd, and the lif35.fs is available so that should work.
You must provide the filename via dhcp too. This is how my hppa
dhcpd.conf entry looks like:
host hp712 {
filename "lif35.fs";
next-server 192.168.12.1;
fixed-address 192.168.12.5;
hardware ethernet 0:60:b0:20:82:1e;
}
next-server is needed because my dhcpd server is not my tftpd server.
the filename doesn't have a path because I run tftpd with the "-s
/tftpboot" arguments (because of my sparcs).
Use tcpdump to see the tftp request. It might help you see why it fails.
lif35.fs contains a compressed bsd.rd. So installation should be similar
to what you know.
>
> Be that as it may, I'd prefer to boot from a cd. In the distro, I see the
> xxboot file, which mkisofs refuses to put into a boot image (wrong size
Those -b -c flags are i386 centric. Creating bootable media for other
arch is not so easy. See the ${CDROM} target in:
> for a floppy I guess). Now in browsing the main ftp site, I see a file
> (cd35.iso) with no information. The FreeBSD file command identifies it as
> a .lif file. Is that the cd boot segment for creating/burning an install
> .iso? Is it possible to create a PA-RISC boot cd in OpenBSD 3.5??
>
LIF is a HP special archive format that can contain multiple member. The
boot rom expect to find the beginning of a lif archive at block 0 of the
boot disk (scsi or network).
So it's not abnormal that xxboot, lif35.fs and cd35.iso have .lif file
signature since they need to be hppa bootable.
I never tried cd35.iso but it should work. Just burn it with your
favorite cd burning software. I don't know if it require a
512bytes/block CD-ROM to be bootable.
> Sorry to trouble the group with this, but I'm not exactly a beginner, and
> yet I seem to be having more grief than I should. Any pointers would be
> appreciated!
>
> Cheers,
> Rob.
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