From owner-freebsd-current Tue Nov 14 20:24:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from milquetoast.cs.mcgill.ca (milquetoast.CS.McGill.CA [132.206.2.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5654737B4C5 for ; Tue, 14 Nov 2000 20:24:50 -0800 (PST) Received: (from mat@localhost) by milquetoast.cs.mcgill.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA03848; Tue, 14 Nov 2000 23:24:43 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 23:24:43 -0500 From: Mathew KANNER To: Jeff Roberson Cc: "'freebsd-current@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: PXE build? Message-ID: <20001114232443.D1264@cs.mcgill.ca> References: <31E4B6337A4FD411BD45000102472E0C05E6DB@EMAIL_SERVER> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: Jeff Roberson's message [PXE build?] as of Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 12:56:25PM -0800 Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, CANADA Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Nov 14, Jeff Roberson wrote: > Does anyone know of any current issues with PXE? I've searched the mailing > lists and I don't see any mention of a problem similar to mine. > > I'm running FreeBSD-CURRENT from 2000 09 15 on a server. The client has an > Intel 21143 based ethernet card that claims it has PXE 2.0 (Build 74) > support. I've setup bootp/tftp on the server which the client successfully > uses to pull down the 'pxeboot' file. After the client retrieves pxeboot it > just hangs. There is no further output from the machine. > > Does anyone know which particular build of PXE 2.0 works with pxeboot? Or > is this even a problem with my firmware? Hello Jeff, You didn't specify if you set-up NFS for the loader to fetch it's configuration and the kernel and such. Assuming you have an otherwise working PXE environment: I've had problems with Intel card at work. I'm at home now and don't remember off-hand what specific model of card or the flash version. Depending on what motherboard was used, I would see crashes and hangs in the loader when configured for tftp (with some), nfs (with others). However, recently someone on -questions referenced a flash upgrade available and I found it on the Intel web site. It fixed all my problems. --Mat > > Thanks, > Jeff -- Mathew Kanner SOCS McGill University Obtuse quote: He [not me] understands: "This field of perception is void of perception of man." -- The Quintessence of Buddhism To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message