Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2012 14:10:57 -0400 From: Rick Miller <vmiller@hostileadmin.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: pxegrub + FreeBSD install Message-ID: <CAHzLAVE%2BiHkX1Pqb7=%2BG=G_dtuijL1FJDE%2B_ppR%2BHC9xYtH63A@mail.gmail.com>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Hi All,
I am attempting to build FreeBSD 8.x-RELEASE over the network via PXE.
I chain pxegrub to pxelinux and load the FreeBSD kernel and mfsroot
through pxegrub with the following:
menuentry "freebsd-x86_64" {
kfreebsd /boot/kernel/kernel
kfreebsd_loadenv /boot/device.hints
kfreebsd_module /boot/mfsroot.gz type=mfs_root
set kFreeBSD.vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/md0c
}
The mfsroot.gz is from the installation DVD with a couple of scripts
and an install.cfg which result in a non-interactive install. I set
variables necessary to allow sysinstall to retrieve the expected
files. The variables (previously) are populated as follows:
server=`kenv -q boot.nfsroot.server`
mac=`kenv -q boot.netif.hwaddr`
ip=`kenv -q boot.netif.ip`
nm=`kenv -q boot.netif.netmask`
gw=`kenv -q boot.netif.gateway`
name=`kenv -q dhcp.host-name`
route=`kenv -q dhcp.routers`
The mfsroot.gz does not see these as set when the environment loads
through pxegrub. If I load the environment through pxeboot.bs, the
variables populate ok. Unfortunately, with pxeboot.bs I experience
extremely high tftp failure rates when compared to pxegrub.
My question is how should I populate these variables in the mfsroot.gz
when loading via pxegrub?
--
Take care
Rick Miller
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?CAHzLAVE%2BiHkX1Pqb7=%2BG=G_dtuijL1FJDE%2B_ppR%2BHC9xYtH63A>