netbooting an install kernel

[Bernd Walter]

On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 05:50:30PM -0700, Stephen Jones wrote:
> 
> On Jun 17, 2004, at 3:51 AM, Bernd Walter wrote:
> >So we have no device.hints in place.
> >Do we already have a way for loading hints in case of netbooting?
> >Otherwise the netbooting kernel needs hardcoded hints.
> >AFAIK my last netbooting alpha was still 4.x so I never run into
> >that problem myself.
> 
> I've not tried using the 4.x stuff, but its probably just to stick with
> 5.2.1 if we could get a net-bootable install kernel.  There is a 
> device.hints
> file, but I'm not sure that it does any good.  Anyway, let me know where
> I could grab one, that would be great.

OK netboot should work perfectly.
After reviewing your original boot log it seems that you manualy booted
the kernel - under normal conditions netboot should read his
configuration including kernel and device.hints.
Maybe something else with the loader scripts is wrong and cuts progress.
What does your /boot contain?

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