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List:       netbsd-port-alpha
Subject:    Re: Boot from network, but having local filesystem
From:       Jochen Kunz <jkunz () unixag-kl ! fh-kl ! de>
Date:       2003-01-20 21:46:43
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On 2003.01.20 18:17 orione wrote:

> but I'd like to boot the alpha kernel without any nfs mount:
> something like, in the boot sequence, getting the netbsd kernel via
> tftp and continuing on the local disk.
On other ports you can use the bootflag "-a" to have the kernel ask for
the root device but on alpha this is used to enable multi user boot. I
don't know the equivalent option for port-alpha. But you can allways
hardcode the root device in the kernel config and compile a custom
kernel. Somthing like 
config          netbsd  root on wd0a type ffs
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tschüß,
         Jochen

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