Re: [9fans] Re: HOWTO: Net booting Plan 9 on RPi 3s and 4s

[Skip Tavakkolian <skip.tavakkolian@gmail.com>]

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Thank you! I will add them.

I'll clarify that TFTP_IP setting will work for RPI4's. I believe RPI3's
will still require the dhcpd patch, if I'm not mistaken.


On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 4:03 AM Richard Miller <9fans@hamnavoe.com> wrote:

> Thanks, Skip. I just net-booted a pi4 using your instructions. Very timely,
> as I was running out of 2GB SD cards for my growing pi collection.
>
> Can I just add two footnotes concerning the pi4 procedure:
> - At the first step where it says "copy the EEPROM image of interest from
>   /lib/firmware/raspberrypi/bootloader/ to pieeprom.bin", I found 26
>   different pieeprom.bin files under that directory.  I guessed that
>   "stable" would be the right one, and that seems to have been OK.  I
>   think "vcgencmd bootloader_version" will give you a hint as to which
>   file is currently in the eeprom.
> - If you use the eeprom config var TFTP_IP to hardcode the tftp server
>   address, you don't need the patched version of Plan 9 dhcpd; in fact
>   any old dhcp server can then be used without special configuration,
>   as it only needs to supply an ip address.
>
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