From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 1 8:47:49 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCF0537B401 for ; Wed, 1 Jan 2003 08:47:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from chainsoftware.nl (chain.xs4all.nl [80.126.25.236]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7120443EB2 for ; Wed, 1 Jan 2003 08:47:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sven@hazejager.nl) Received: from chainsoftware.nl (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by chainsoftware.nl (8.12.6/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h01Glggj080962 for ; Wed, 1 Jan 2003 17:47:42 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from sven@hazejager.nl) Received: from localhost (sven@localhost) by chainsoftware.nl (8.12.6/8.12.3/Submit) with ESMTP id h01GlgXR080959 for ; Wed, 1 Jan 2003 17:47:42 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from sven@hazejager.nl) X-Authentication-Warning: proxy.chain.loc: sven owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2003 17:47:42 +0100 (CET) From: Sven Hazejager X-X-Sender: sven@proxy.chain.loc To: current@freebsd.org Subject: PXE Installation of RC2 Message-ID: <20030101173622.J80796-100000@proxy.chain.loc> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.3 tests=SPAM_PHRASE_00_01,X_AUTH_WARNING X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.24 (chainsoftware.nl) Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi all, I'm trying to get FreeBSD 5.0-RC2 installed on a Thinkpad X21 laptop without floppy or cd-rom drive. I'm booting the installation from PXE. Note that this procedure works with 4.7, but I haven't found any specific documentation for a PXE install of 5.0. On the server: tftpd: /tftpboot contains pxeboot (from the ISO). dhcpd root-path points to "/usr/local/pxe-5.0" /usr/local/pxe-5.0 contains: ./mfsroot.gz ./kernel ./boot ./boot/loader ./boot/loader.rc $ cat ./boot/loader.rc echo Loading kernel... load /kernel echo Loading mfsroot... load -t mfs_root /mfsroot set vfs.root.mountfrom="ufs:/dev/md0c" autoboot 10 The above works in getting the installation program to run. I'm using an NFS share of the complete 5.0-RC2 ISO as media source for installation. The installation program finishes without error, asks for a root password and such, but after reboot, the created slice is not bootable: "Error loading operating system" I'm using the default DOS MBR. Any suggestions? Thanks, Sven Hazejager To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message