From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 3 16:33:52 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8B7F16A417 for ; Mon, 3 Dec 2007 16:33:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsam@ipt.ru) Received: from services.ipt.ru (services.ipt.ru [194.62.233.110]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B73813C4D3 for ; Mon, 3 Dec 2007 16:33:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsam@ipt.ru) Received: from bb.ipt.ru ([194.62.233.89]) by services.ipt.ru with esmtp (Exim 4.54 (FreeBSD)) id 1IzDnL-000EIM-AV; Mon, 03 Dec 2007 19:05:19 +0300 To: Balgansuren Batsukh References: <004d01c8214d$b5a02970$c801000a@balgaa> <4732E7D9.4040804@wlink.com.np> <001001c835b0$f2f29700$c801000a@balgaa> From: Boris Samorodov Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 19:03:41 +0300 In-Reply-To: <001001c835b0$f2f29700$c801000a@balgaa> (Balgansuren Batsukh's message of "Mon\, 3 Dec 2007 21\:31\:55 +0800") Message-ID: <17396322@bb.ipt.ru> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD-6.2, 7.0-BETA1 on X60 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 16:33:52 -0000 On Mon, 3 Dec 2007 21:31:55 +0800 Balgansuren Batsukh wrote: > I tried to install FreeBSD on X60 using PXE boot, but unsuccessfully > finish my attempt. > When it start PXE boot it get IP address from DHCP, download PXE boot > file from TFTP server, > then trying to load kernel image from TFTP server. Did you look at /var/log/xferlog? Is there something interesting? > After 10-20 minutes it give me error message "can't load kernel", I > tried many times load boot/kernel/kernel, but same result. You may try tcpdump/wireshark at the server side (as someone has already suggested). > I guess PXE boot read much longer time to load kernel file and > suddenly give me error message. > I followed instruction on http://www.hack.org/mc/freebsd-x60.html There are many ways to run diskless. I found FreeBSD docs very useful: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/network-diskless.html diskless(8), /usr/share/examples/diskless/clone_root > I made X60---->LAN switch---->TFTP/DHCP/NFS server and even tried > X60---cross-over cable---->TFTP/DHCP/NFS server. WBR -- Boris Samorodov (bsam) Research Engineer, http://www.ipt.ru Telephone & Internet SP FreeBSD committer, http://www.FreeBSD.org The Power To Serve