netbooting an install kernel

[Stephen Jones]

On Jun 17, 2004, at 6:15 PM, Bernd Walter wrote:
>
> 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?

Taking advise form another freebsder, I grabbed the boot-only ISO, 
copied the
'kernel' file and the 'netboot' file, thinking that was all I needed.  
When that
didn't work, I cp -Rp'ed the mounted ISO into my tftpboot (bootp's dir) 
and
tried that.

So, netboot gets loaded, but it can not find a kernel unless I either 
do a
boot kernel/kernel  or boot ./kernel (if I place the kernel file in the 
current
directory and rename the kernel directory).

$ file boot
boot: data
$ ls -lad boot
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  7484 Feb 24 02:32 boot