The problem was:
>
> With SunOS 4.1 I was able to boot a SS1 from a SS1+ server
> and had only the swap at a local disk. I achieved this
> with the following statement in the config file:
>
> config vmunix root generic swap on sd2
>
> With SunOS 4.1.1 I am unable to do this. I tried:
>
> - config vmunix root generic swap on sd2
>
> - config vmunix root type nfs swap on sd2
>
> - config vmunix swap on sd2
>
> - config vmunix swap generic # and in the servers bootparams:
> client root=server:/n/client swap=/dev/sd2b
>
> Nothing did the job. Does anybody know what I have to do?
>
The solution is to use:
config vmunix swap on type spec sd2
^^^^^^^^^
Many thanks to:
"Matt Crawford" <matt@oddjob.uchicago.edu>
Kennedy Lemke <Kennedy_J_Lemke@princeton.edu>
Tad Guy <tadguy@abcfd01.larc.nasa.gov>
cpe@aus.sun.com (Christian Peter - SUN Sydney - Software Support)
dennett@kodak.com (Charlie Dennett)
dmorse@sun-valley.stanford.edu
dws@corp.sun.com (Dennis Sexton)
era@niwot.scd.ucar.edu (Ed Arnold)
gallacch@pluto.crd.ge.com (MaryBeth Gallacchi)
mark%isis.Berkeley.EDU@ucbvax.berkeley.edu (mark kraitchman)
stern@east.sun.com (Hal Stern - Consultant)
synaptx!glenn@uunet.uu.net (Glenn Gribble)
trinkle@cs.purdue.edu
zjat02@trc.amoco.com (Jon A. Tankersley)
for your fast response!
Martin.
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