setnetbootinfo
—
configure Alpha network bootstrap program
/usr/mdec/setnetbootinfo |
[-vf ] [-o
outfile] [-a
ether-address | -h
ether-host] infile |
/usr/mdec/setnetbootinfo |
[-v ] -u
-o outfile
infile |
The setnetbootinfo
utility configures the
NetBSD/alpha network bootstrap program so that it can
be used to bootstrap systems with old firmware revisions.
The NetBSD/alpha network bootstrap program
needs to have the ethernet address of the interface being used to boot the
system available when querying other hosts on the network for bootstrapping
information. Alpha systems with old firmware revisions provide no way for
network bootstrap programs to determine the ethernet address of the
interface that they are booting from, and so the
NetBSD/alpha network bootstrap program must find
that information in another way. (Newer firmware revisions include the
ethernet address in the name of the device that is being booted from.) The
setnetbootinfo
utility encodes an ethernet address
(and other information) directly into the network bootstrap program.
The options recognized by setnetbootinfo
are as follows:
-a
ether-address
- Encode the given ethernet address into the network bootstrap program.
(This option and the
-h
option are mutually
exclusive.)
-f
- Force the address information being encoded in the bootstrap program to be
used regardless of whether or not the bootstrap program can get address
information from the booting system's firmware.
-h
ether-host
- Encode the ethernet address of the specified host into the network
bootstrap program. The host's name is translated to an ethernet address
using the
ether_hostton(3)
function. (This option and the
-a
option are
mutually exclusive.)
-o
outfile
- Output the resulting bootstrap program into the file named by
outfile, replacing it if it already exists. If the
-o
flag is not specified, the output file name
will be the name of the input bootstrap program concatenated with a period
and the digits of the ethernet address being encoded. For instance, if the
input file is named /usr/mdec/netboot and is being
configured to encode the ethernet address
08:00:2b:bd:5d:fd
, then the default output file
name would be /usr/mdec/netboot.08002bbd5dfd. It
is safe to set the output file name to be the same as the input file name;
the input file is read in its entirety before the output file is
modified.
-u
- Remove configuration information from the specified network bootstrap
program. If this option is used, an output file name must be specified
with the
-o
option, and neither the
-a
or the -h
options may
be specified.
-v
- Verbose mode.
- /usr/mdec/netboot
- network bootstrap program
The NetBSD/alpha setnetbootinfo
command first appeared in NetBSD 1.3.
The setnetbootinfo
utility was written by Chris
Demetriou.