From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 18 19:15:38 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EB5E1065670 for ; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:15:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tajudd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qy0-f173.google.com (mail-qy0-f173.google.com [209.85.221.173]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAADE8FC17 for ; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:15:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tajudd@gmail.com) Received: by mail-qy0-f173.google.com with SMTP id 3so1693894qyk.3 for ; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:15:37 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=1a9mW0tF+/eDSnzWI7AQvtt/aIrCZJyUGD9Dtx7SNMs=; b=p4hxpwHNmyC3ckdzO/4HFpB+U/U9b09NLvLIH0nH0UHQalEyiOpsRoGOV09fXbMdk/ FdVKKRhYh6JqF3sLebY0Ulzn/kByna1CehqRlbbfMAzd+LlvMDUEaIZPjcp9q3aYPPIw FJ0z/CGu760w1uDzwk83ODO1dan24A5/DsjZ8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=d8lt0Jx72oKOHJc2ou4Bklat22Nc6UhmC+TIrQDrFBK/F/Vvg1IaLPrSo8fiMAK/21 AZU4LNyj4Zgq7n6Q81RCKQMFxTX85/W1hZvN9s5tcx88sICREAMQbgzS0iDAwNRBWlau RdFjvwergpJjFk9Xo5YC5rx84bndpNHSVTpto= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.220.71.10 with SMTP id f10mr2074041vcj.13.1245352537322; Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:15:37 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4A3A88B9.9040704@baywinds.org> References: <4A3A88B9.9040704@baywinds.org> Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:15:37 -0600 Message-ID: From: Tim Judd To: Bruce Ferrell Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PXEBOOT based upgrade/install X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 19:15:38 -0000 If you're going to setup a netbooting server (congrats!), why are you trying to limit yourself to what seems to be the bootonly CD? There are some people who complain about broadcom cards, in the fact that they're buggy support/nonexistant support. Maybe your NIC chipset is one of those. The loader.rc is told to mount a memory filesystem from ufs formatted disk located at /dev/md0c (a memory disk that is populated from the previous line, a file-based filesystem). So your system wouldn't be able to hit sysinstall or the /etc files (as I'm seeing the boot process) to do the install or configuration. Overall, what's to stop you from doing a diskless boot? the handbook makes it for a multi-PC setup, but for a single setup, it's quite easy. On 6/18/09, Bruce Ferrell wrote: > Hi all! > > I'm new in these parts, but not new to *nix. I'm trying to upgrade a > system with FreeBSD 5.4 to 7.2. > > I've gotten the pxeboot to work, but somehow the network interface isn't > seen by the installer. > > loader.rc: > =========== > include /boot/loader.4th > include /boot/beastie.4th > > \ Reads and processes loader.conf variables > start > > load /boot/kernel/kernel > load -t mfs_root /boot/mfsroot > set vfs.root.mountfrom="ufs:/dev/md0c" > boot > > loader.conf: > ============ > mfsroot_load="YES" > mfsroot_type="mfs_root" > mfsroot_name="/boot/mfsroot" > if_bge_load="yes" > > I added the if_bge line at that seems to be the module used on 5.4. > > Any other leads? > > Thanks in advance > > Bruce > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >