Has anyone been able to get the new FreeBSD 5.0 onto an ultrasparc machine? I'm trying to do it via 'boot net' but I'm going bald:

Environment monitoring: disabled
Executing last command: boot net
Boot device: /pci@1f,0/ethernet@c File and args:
Using Onboard Transceiver - Link Up.
Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet
Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet
Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet
Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet
1d000
Server IP address: x.x.x.x
Client IP address: y.y.y.y
Console: OpenFirmware console
FreeBSD/sparc64 loader
bootpath="/pci@1f,0/ethernet@c"
loaddev=net0:

can't load 'kernel'

Type '?' for a list of commands, 'help' for more detailed help.
OK

(The server and client IP addresses are correct but edited out)

It finds the loader, but it won't find the kernel. I'm using the tftp loader and using bootp right now.

Any info I find on the internet talks about cdroms. There is no cdrom in this machine. I downloaded the iso and am going to burn it and install a temp cdrom if I can't get this boot net thing working, but that's a last resort (involves manual labor!).

http://www.netsys.com/sunmgr/2002-05/msg00751.html

boot disk not boot net :)

boot disk? I don't want to boot from a disk, I want to boot from the network. And it seems to be working because it finds my FreeBSD loader on the other machine. I need it to then read and load the kernel from the other machine (that's where I'm stuck) and then create the filesystem and transfer the files over.

I think I'm going to end up pulling the server and connecting a cdrom to see if it'll take it that way. We'll see. :)

Are you loading the kernel with tftp or NFS? Try having a look at this web page if you haven't already sen it http://people.freebsd.org/~murray/sparc64/install.html

Richard