From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 15 07:07:56 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E03B16A4CE for ; Wed, 15 Dec 2004 07:07:56 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp-1.hut.fi (smtp-1.hut.fi [130.233.228.91]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F9C643D41 for ; Wed, 15 Dec 2004 07:07:55 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kmustone@amenemhet.hut.fi) Received: from localhost (katosiko.hut.fi [130.233.228.115]) by smtp-1.hut.fi (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id iBF77s4K028542; Wed, 15 Dec 2004 09:07:54 +0200 Received: from smtp-1.hut.fi ([130.233.228.91]) by localhost (katosiko.hut.fi [130.233.228.115]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 17272-01-3; Wed, 15 Dec 2004 09:07:52 +0200 (EET) Received: from amenemhet.hut.fi (amenemhet.hut.fi [130.233.248.211]) by smtp-1.hut.fi (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id iBF765Eq028241; Wed, 15 Dec 2004 09:06:05 +0200 Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 09:06:05 +0200 (EET) From: Kimmo Mustonen To: Erik Norgaard In-Reply-To: <41BF723D.2040803@locolomo.org> Message-ID: References: <41BF723D.2040803@locolomo.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.64 (2004-01-11) on katosiko.hut.fi X-TKK-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-2.1.2-hutcc at katosiko.hut.fi cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PXE multiboot FreeBSD and other OSes? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 07:07:56 -0000 On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Erik Norgaard wrote: > c. Do you want to create a diskless multiboot machine? Mainly c). > a: For each host you can specify different pxeboot loader and different > root-path in the dhcpd.conf. This is what I have now. I just cannot change from FreeBSD to some other OS without checking the HW address and changing the boot loader from pxegrub or pxelinux to pxeboot, because the others cannot boot FreeBSD. > b: Booting the pxeboot-loader it will run the loader.rc scripts, you can > set this up to offer different boot menu. If you use TFTP to fetch > these, this can set different nfs root paths This probably solves the problem changing dhcpd.conf each time I want to change between FreeBSD versions. Thanks. I guess there's no way to make an entry in loader.rc that would enable FreeBSD loader to load other operating systems or other pxe boot loaders (like pxegrub to continue from there)? > c: This I don't know. Is there a better forum or mailing list to ask about this? Regards, Kimmo