From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 7 12:37:20 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D22F916A401 for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2006 12:37:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Received: from caladan.tdx.co.uk (caladan.tdx.co.uk [62.13.130.230]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B68343D53 for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2006 12:37:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kpielorz@tdx.co.uk) Received: from unsupported (thebrick.dmpriest.net.uk [62.13.130.30]) by caladan.tdx.co.uk (8.13.6/8.13.6/Kp) with ESMTP id k37CbIV8058519 for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2006 13:37:18 +0100 (BST) Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 13:38:34 +0100 From: Karl Pielorz To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <646524E0D03D56EBF71C0BAC@unsupported> In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: Mulberry/4.0.4 (Win32) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Re: pxeboot to -Install- FreeBSD... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Apr 2006 12:37:20 -0000 --On 07 April 2006 11:40 +0100 Karl Pielorz wrote: > What do I need to do, to turn this 'booting FreeBSD from pxeboot' into > something that will dump me into sysinstall, like booting from the CD rom? > > I've searched the net - but the only stuff I've found is either for much > earlier FreeBSD versions, or incomplete - or both :) Replying to my own post :( - I fixed this in the end, I overlooked a line in 'loader.conf': vfs.root.mountfrom="ufs:/dev/md0c" Kind of important that one :) -Kp