Dear Sirs! I managed to boot OpenBSD 5.3 in a Fujitsu Siemens Futro A220 (AMD Geode LX800) thin client from a Celeron Machine running OpenBSD 4.8.
I followed what I read in DISKLESS(8) and PXEBOOT(8) almost blindly, without understandig very much. Perhaps the pages could be more understandable. I have a lot of questions. I begin with some. Who uses bootparam? Only the Kernel? Is Bootparamd a standard? FreeBSD has it with the same author, there is also a Bootparamd in SunOS. I think this is important to know for booting from other operating systems, but I dont find this info in the man pages. After it boots, I have the root file I gave in /etc/bootparam, I dont need to mount it with /etc/fstab. Should I give the root file in /etc/bootparam and leave the kernel mount the root again? The above does not happen with the swap file. To have a swap file I have to give it in /etc/fstab. Is this due to an error in my configuration? Thanks Rodrigo.
