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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news2.acs.oakland.edu!news.tacom.army.mil!news.webspan.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!newspump.sol.net!ddsw1!news.mcs.net!hammer.uoregon.edu!hunter.premier.net!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in3.uu.net!192.109.159.3!news.gtn.com!gtnduss1.du.gtn.com!news.knipp.de!anarch!hathor.free.de!news From: Rainer Kopietz <rainer@free.de> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: rbootd Date: Sun, 01 Dec 1996 20:55:54 +0100 Organization: FREE! Lines: 32 Message-ID: <32A1E2CA.41C67EA6@free.de> References: <57830q$m1u@news.interlog.com> <57a4a4$ko1@news.bayarea.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: hathor.free.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) 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. I would be very happy if anybody can help me. Thank you in advance, Rainer Kopietz -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rainer Kopietz rainer@free.de