sparc64 loader gets confused when netbooting

Jake Burkholder jake at locore.ca
Sat Sep 27 09:56:25 PDT 2003


Apparently, On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 02:36:53AM +0200,
	Per Kristian Hove said words to the effect of;

> [Per Kristian Hove, 2003-09-24]
> 
> |  When netbooting, the sparc64 loader tries to download the kernel from
> |  the wrong server address.
> 
> On further investigation, the cure is quite trivial (and not sparc64-
> specific). The attached patch to /sys/boot/common/dev_net.c fixes this
> problem.
> 
> Should I open a PR?

Yes, please do.

Jake


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