From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 16 13:33:24 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C02F1065670 for ; Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:33:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from walraven@terantula.com) Received: from mx.terantula.com (mx.terantula.com [212.61.39.65]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 432268FC0C for ; Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:33:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from walraven@terantula.com) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mx.terantula.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B9591479C; Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:33:20 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at terantula.com Received: from mx.terantula.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (cotton.terantula.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 27ID-h++ITzy; Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:33:13 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mx.terantula.com (Postfix, from userid 1002) id D159E14A20; Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:33:13 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:33:13 +0200 From: Marco Walraven To: Jeremy Chadwick Message-ID: <20080616133313.GE27681@cotton.terantula.com> References: <20080613103000.GB27681@cotton.terantula.com> <20080613111249.GA51360@eos.sc1.parodius.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080613111249.GA51360@eos.sc1.parodius.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Organisation: Terantula Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Marco Walraven Subject: Re: RELENG_7 pxeboot fails on SuperMicro 6012 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:33:24 -0000 On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 04:12:49AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 12:30:00PM +0200, Marco Walraven wrote: > > I ran into the following problem trying to pxeboot RELENG_7 on a SuperMicro 6012 system. RELENG_6 just works fine and the same RELENG_7 release pxeboots fine when I use a VMware host. > > > > Can't work out which disk we are booting from. > > Guessed BIOS device 0xffffff not fund by probes, defaulting to disk0: > > > > can't load 'kernel' > > > > None of the setting I have specified in /boot/loader.conf especially vfs.root.mountfrom="ufs:/dev/md0c" pop up when asking for the configured variables. > > > > Any clues ? > > http://jdc.parodius.com/freebsd/pxeboot_serial_install.html > > Be sure to read this, and see Item #10. Thanks for the quick hint Jeremy; booting on that old piece of hardware did indeed succeed using an uncompressed mfsroot. Marco -- Terantula - Industrial Strength Open Source phone:+31 64 3232 400 / www: http://www.terantula.com / pgpkey: E7EE7A46 pgp fingerprint: F2EE 122D 964C DE68 7380 6F95 3710 7719 E7EE 7A46