Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 17:46:36 +0100 From: Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk> To: "Chuck T." <freebsdfan@hotmail.com>, freebsd-small@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems booting 4.8R PicoBSD Message-ID: <4.3.2.7.2.20030715172854.0212a4e0@gid.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <Law9-F81RaqbC8wSA1X0000ee16@hotmail.com>
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Hi,
At 16:23 15/7/03, Chuck T. wrote:
>[...]My 4.8R based kernel is booting via PXE using dhcp/tftp/nfs, but
>hanging after
>decompressing the kernel. A packet sniffer shows that it was trying to
>read /pxeroot/etc/fstab.gz and failing that /pxeroot/etc/fstab. I believe
>that means that the kernel didn't find the embedded root file system image
>for some reason. [etc]
Do you have a <wherever_you're_booting_from>/boot/loader.rc? pxeboot
expects that, see pxeboot(8). It may need to contain:
set vfs.root.mountfrom="ufs:/dev/md0c"
or some such. Sorry for the vagueness, I don't have a netbooting pico setup
here right now.
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