From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 18 06:30:12 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED40616A4CE for ; Mon, 18 Apr 2005 06:30:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: from 62-15-209-148.inversas.jazztel.es (62-15-209-148.inversas.jazztel.es [62.15.209.148]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2368743D41 for ; Mon, 18 Apr 2005 06:30:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from josemi@freebsd.jazztel.es) Received: from redesjm.local (orion.redesjm.local [192.168.254.16]) j3I6U54D001956; Mon, 18 Apr 2005 08:30:05 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from freebsd@redesjm.local) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by redesjm.local (8.13.3/8.13.3/Submit) id j3I6U3bh000926; Mon, 18 Apr 2005 08:30:03 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from freebsd@redesjm.local) From: Jose M Rodriguez Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 08:30:01 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <200504172334.j3HNYjVG056909@aurora.sol.net> In-Reply-To: <200504172334.j3HNYjVG056909@aurora.sol.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline To: "Undisclosed.Recipients": ; Message-Id: <200504180830.03116.freebsd@redesjm.local> X-AntiVirus: checked by AntiVir Milter (version: 1.1.0-3; AVE: 6.30.0.7; VDF: 6.30.0.108; host: antares.redesjm.local) cc: stable@freebsd.org cc: Joe Greco Subject: Re: PXE booting a 5.4-RC2 system ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 06:30:13 -0000 El Monday 18 April 2005 01:34, Joe Greco escribi=F3: > 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.=20 > Anyone have a clue which is the correct answer? > try what is used in the CD install boot: mount a kernel and use a=20 mfsroot. This maybe even more easy to setup. Take a look into boot/=20 of CD1. =2D- josemi > Thanks, > > ... JG