From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 15 14:44:10 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 D5CC216A4CE for ; Sun, 15 Feb 2004 14:44:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from o9.88.net (82-35-42-29.cable.ubr02.camd.blueyonder.co.uk [82.35.42.29]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 904A143D1D for ; Sun, 15 Feb 2004 14:44:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from john@zog.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by o9.88.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BF89142CE6 for ; Sun, 15 Feb 2004 22:44:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from 88.NET (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by o9.88.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64C01142CE5 for ; Sun, 15 Feb 2004 22:44:05 +0000 (GMT) From: "John Morgan Salomon" To: questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 22:44:05 +0000 Message-Id: <20040215223550.M68875@zog.net> X-Mailer: Open WebMail 2.30 20040103 X-OriginatingIP: 80.219.163.12 (john) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p7 at 88.net Subject: PXE Booting 5.2.1-RC2 on Thinkpad X31 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: Sun, 15 Feb 2004 22:44:11 -0000 Hi there, I've got 4.9-RELEASE running on my Thinkpad, and am trying to netboot 5.2.1-RC2. The laptop has no floppy or cdrom; I'd previously managed to install a pre-release 5.2 on a separate hard drive, but it's pretty unstable, doesn't like ACPI, has trouble finding devices, hence the 5.2.1-RC2. I've been trying various combinations of tftpboot and nfs to get 5.2 booting on the thing--I have finally gotten the laptop to boot the contents of the 5.2.1-RC2 kernel and mfsroot floppies, and gotten to a setup screen: -> pxeboot include /pxeroot/boot/device.hints load /pxeroot/kernel /lad -t mfs_root /pxeroot/mfsroot However, no matter what I do, the machine inevitably freezes after a few seconds. There's no error messages, I can't get an emergency shell open, nothing. Can anyone give me some hints as to what I might be doing wrong? Has anyone gotten 5.x running nicely on a Thinkpad X31? Any ideas would be appreciated. Cheers, -John