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From: Eduardo Viruena Silva <mrspock@esfm.ipn.mx>
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Subject: another minor problem with diskless systems.
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Hi list!

I was trying to create a diskless system with
FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASEp7.  The FreeBSD daemons helped
me and I could make it.

Now, etherboot loads the kernel and it boots...
but it does not display the booting process messages.
    ===================

Once that one minute or so has passed, my system
displays the login prompt and everything seems to be ok,
and it is ok.

I configured X to query xdm in the server and display a login dialog,
but the system did not have enough swap.  Configured
the swap file, but I made a mistake.   Tried to boot again
but, in this time, my computer rebooted over and over,
without displaying anything.

Of course, the problem was in the dhcp configuration file.
I fixed it and my system worked properly.  The problem here
is that I could not see the booting process. Why?

If I could have seen it, I had solved the problem without
guessing what it was.

Hope you can help me.  Thanks in advance.

			Eduardo.