The network installation has many steps in common with the diskless installation: once again, we will have to set up the rarpd(8), dhcpd(8) and tftpd(8) servers. This time, however, the kernel to boot is bsd.rd instead of bsd. It's a RAM disk kernel
which, after boot, provides a RAM-based filesystem containing various interesting utilities for system maintenance and installation. Therefore, the boot configuration file will contain an additional line:
set tty com0 stty com0 19200 boot bsd.rd
To boot from network, on Soekris systems, you must press ctrl-P at system startup to enter into the BIOS menu and then type "boot F0". An absolutely normal boot and installation process will follow:
# cu -l cua00 -s 19200
comBIOS ver. 1.26a 20040819 Copyright (C) 2000-2004 Soekris Engineering.
net45xx
0064 Mbyte Memory CPU 80486 133 Mhz
Slot Vend Dev ClassRev Cmd Stat CL LT HT Base1 Base2 Int
-------------------------------------------------------------------
0:00:0 1022 3000 06000000 0006 2280 00 00 00 00000000 00000000
0:17:0 104C AC51 06070000 0107 0210 10 3F 82 A0000000 020000A0 10
0:17:1 104C AC51 06070000 0107 0210 10 3F 82 A0001000 020000A0 10
0:18:0 100B 0020 02000000 0107 0290 00 3F 00 0000E101 A0002000 11
0:19:0 100B 0020 02000000 0107 0290 00 3F 00 0000E201 A0003000 05
5 Seconds to automatic boot. Press Ctrl-P for entering Monitor.
comBIOS Monitor. Press ? for help.
> boot F0
NSC DP83815/DP83816 Fast Ethernet UNDI, v1.03
Copyright (C) 2002, 2003 National Semiconductor Corporation
All rights reserved.
Pre-boot eXecution Environment PXE-2.0 (build 082)
Copyright (C) 1997-2000 Intel Corporation
CLIENT MAC ADDR: 00 00 24 C3 C1 B0
CLIENT IP: 172.16.0.10 MASK: 255.255.255.0 DHCP IP: 172.16.0.4
GATEWAY IP: 172.16.0.4
probing: pc0 com0 com1 pxe![2.1] mem[639K 63M a20=on]
disk:
net: mac 00:00:24:c3:c1:b0, ip 172.16.0.10, server 172.16.0.4
>> OpenBSD/i386 PXEBOOT 1.02
switching console to com0
>> OpenBSD/i386 PXEBOOT 1.02
com0: changing speed to 19200 baud in 5 seconds, change your terminal to match!
com0: 19200 baud
booting tftp:bsd.rd: 4302596+825452 [52+147936+134838]=0x5291b0
entry point at 0x100120
Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 1995-2005 OpenBSD. All rights reserved. http://www.OpenBSD.org
OpenBSD 4.1 (RAMDISK_CD) #573: Sun May 20 00:27:05 MST 2007
deraadt@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/RAMDISK_CD
cpu0: AMD Am486DX4 W/B or Am5x86 W/B 150 ("AuthenticAMD" 486-class)
cpu0: FPU
real mem = 66691072 (65128K)
avail mem = 54427648 (53152K)
using 839 buffers containing 3436544 bytes (3356K) of memory
mainbus0 (root)
bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+(00) BIOS, date 20/40/19, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xf7840
pcibios0 at bios0: rev 2.0 @ 0xf0000/0x10000
pcibios0: pcibios_get_intr_routing - function not supported
pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing information unavailable.
pcibios0: PCI bus #2 is the last bus
bios0: ROM list: 0xc8000/0x9000
cpu0 at mainbus0
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (no bios)
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "AMD ElanSC520 PCI" rev 0x00
cbb0 at pci0 dev 17 function 0 "Texas Instruments PCI1420 CardBus" rev 0x00: irq 10
cbb1 at pci0 dev 17 function 1 "Texas Instruments PCI1420 CardBus" rev 0x00: irq 10
sis0 at pci0 dev 18 function 0 "NS DP83815 10/100" rev 0x00: DP83816A, irq 11, address 00:00:24:c3:c1:b0
nsphyter0 at sis0 phy 0: DP83815 10/100 PHY, rev. 1
sis1 at pci0 dev 19 function 0 "NS DP83815 10/100" rev 0x00: DP83816A, irq 5, address 00:00:24:c3:c1:b1
nsphyter1 at sis1 phy 0: DP83815 10/100 PHY, rev. 1
cardslot0 at cbb0 slot 0 flags 0
cardbus0 at cardslot0: bus 1 device 0 cacheline 0x10, lattimer 0x3f
pcmcia0 at cardslot0
cardslot1 at cbb1 slot 1 flags 0
cardbus1 at cardslot1: bus 2 device 0 cacheline 0x10, lattimer 0x3f
pcmcia1 at cardslot1
isa0 at mainbus0
isadma0 at isa0
pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5
pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot)
pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot
wskbd0 at pckbd0 (mux 1 ignored for console): console keyboard
wdc0 at isa0 port 0x1f0/8 irq 14
wd0 at wdc0 channel 0 drive 0: <SanDisk SDCFB-64>
wd0: 1-sector PIO, LBA, 61MB, 125440 sectors
wd0(wdc0:0:0): using BIOS timings
npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: using exception 16
pccom0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo
pccom0: console
pccom1 at isa0 port 0x2f8/8 irq 3: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo
biomask f7c5 netmask ffe5 ttymask ffe7
rd0: fixed, 3800 blocks
wi0 at pcmcia0 function 0 "NETGEAR MA401RA Wireless PC, Card, ISL37300P" port 0xa000/64
wi0: PRISM2.5 ISL3873, Firmware 1.0.7 (primary), 1.3.6 (station), address 00:09:5b:3b:89:58
root on rd0a
rootdev=0x1100 rrootdev=0x2f00 rawdev=0x2f02
erase ^?, werase ^W, kill ^U, intr ^C, status ^T
(I)nstall, (U)pgrade or (S)hell? i
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