Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 13:40:20 -0500 From: "Matthew Zahorik" <matt@thebiz.net> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Netbooting FreeBSD 4.0/Intel? Message-ID: <008301bf8f77$14c57bb0$1401eed8@mahatma>
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Does anyone have a howto on netbooting FreeBSD 4.0/Intel with Etherboot? I've easily managed to netboot my FreeBSD 4.0/Alpha boxes with the included Alpha SRM netboot utility. I really like the bootp/NFS solution used by netboot. It's quite clean, especially since I'm mounting root from this same box. My Intel boxes are proving to be more difficult. Netboot is depreciated on Intel, and doesn't even seem to compile on FreeBSD 4.0. Either way, it doesn't support the Intel Pro/100+ cards (82559 based) I have in my Intel boxes. No bootp/NFS for the Intel boxes. :-( So I turned to Etherboot as suggested in many Usenet postings and the list archives. I hand compiled the latest, etherboot 4.4.4. That didn't work. (see below) I used ports to install etherboot 4.2.13. (Had to change the Makefile since it specifies 4.2.11, which isn't available anymore) This too didn't work. In both cases, I wrote floppyload.bin and eepro100.lzrun to a floppy. Etherboot starts, gets its IP address from bootp, TFTP's the kernel, quickly says "Loading Segment 1" then "Loading Segment 2" and then promptly reboots the machine. The kernel is compiled with all the option BOOTP.* bits - it should work. So, if anyone has any pointers or a list of things you did to get this work, I'd appreciate it. Thanks! - Matt -- Matthew Zahorik Director of Systems and Networking - BiznessOnline.com matt@thebiz.net President of AlbanyNet Inc. - a BiznessOnline subsidiary maz@albany.net Voice: (518) 292-1001 Fax: (518) 626-0793 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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