Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 08:30:01 +0200 From: Jose M Rodriguez <josemi@freebsd.jazztel.es> To: "Undisclosed.Recipients": ; Cc: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net> Subject: Re: PXE booting a 5.4-RC2 system ... Message-ID: <200504180830.03116.freebsd@redesjm.local> In-Reply-To: <200504172334.j3HNYjVG056909@aurora.sol.net> References: <200504172334.j3HNYjVG056909@aurora.sol.net>
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El Monday 18 April 2005 01:34, Joe Greco escribió: > So I'm playing with 5.4-RC2. > > I can get the system to PXE boot into a normal full base system > environment just fine, all the way to multiuser. > > However, for system installs, we've historically PXE booted the boot > floppy images and then proceeded to do NFS or FTP based installs. > > So I set off to do this with 5.4-RC2. I pulled the contents out of > boot.flp, kern1.flp, and kern2.flp and stuffed them all on one of our > boot servers. > > /boot/5.4X-i386-load 358 # ls -al > total 3716 > drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 512 Apr 17 18:14 . > drwxr-xr-x 10 root wheel 512 Apr 17 18:07 .. > drwxr-xr-x 2 root operator 512 Apr 10 04:26 .snap > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 138998 Apr 10 04:26 acpi.ko.gz > drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 Apr 10 04:26 boot > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1425408 Apr 10 04:26 kernel.gz.aa > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1060816 Apr 10 04:26 kernel.gz.ab > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 16384 Apr 10 04:26 kernel.gz.boot > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 91 Apr 10 04:26 kernel.gz.split > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1081726 Apr 10 04:26 mfsroot.gz > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 69 Apr 17 18:10 notes > > Same setup works fine with /boot/5.4X-i386-pxe1, which is just the > entire 5.4-RC2 distribution extracted to that directory. > > Going back to the above setup: > > The client PC, a Gigabyte 7VM400-RZ with an AMD 2700 XP and 512MB > RAM, a CD drive, and an Adaptec 2940U2W controller, starts loading > the PXE loader just fine. > > PXE Loader 1.00 > > Building the boot loader arguments > Relocating the loader and the BTX > Starting the BTX loader > > BTX loader 1.00 BTX is version 1.01 > Console: internal video/keyboard > BIOS drive A: is disk0 > > PXE version 2.1, real mode entry point @9e2b:00f6 > BIOS 640kB/490432kB available memory > > FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1 > (root@harlow.cse.buffalo.edu, Sun Apr 10 04:50:34 UTC 2005) > pxe_open: server addr: XXXXXXXXXXXX > pxe_open: server path: /boot/5.4X-i386-load > pxe_open: gateway ip: XXXXXXXXXXXXX > Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf > panic: free: guard1 fail @ 0x54a7c from > /usr/src/lib/libstand/gzipfs.c:192 --> Press a key on the console to > reboot <-- > > So I figure maybe it's a bug or maybe I need to tweak something. > Anyone have a clue which is the correct answer? > try what is used in the CD install boot: mount a kernel and use a mfsroot. This maybe even more easy to setup. Take a look into boot/ of CD1. -- josemi > Thanks, > > ... JG
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