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From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
To: Paul Jansen <vlaero@yahoo.com.au>
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Subject: Re: pxe booting problem
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* Paul Jansen <vlaero@yahoo.com.au> [011030 08:31] wrote:
> I posted some of this info last friday but haven't had
> any responses.  I'm hoping someone out there knows
> what the problem is.  Here's the details:
> 
> I saw Alfred Perlsteins page on how to setup
> FreeBSD installs unsing PXE.  
> The problem I'm having now is when I follow Alfred's
> directions to create the PXE loader (using 4.4R) It
> bombs out.  It's my understanding the I just need to
> stick 'pxeldr' into the root of the TFTP server
> directory and tell the machine to execute this by
> specifying it as the boot file in the DHCP
> configuration.  I also understand that I have to
> create a subdirectory called 'boot' under the TFTP
> root directory with the file 'loader.rc' in it.  Can
> someone verify if this is the case?
> Alfred's instructions can be found here:
> http://people.freebsd.org/~alfred/pxe/
> 
> This is the console output that insues when I try and
> build pxeldr as per Alfred's instructions:

[snip]

I'm not seeing this problem when I build from a full copy of
the source tree.  Perhaps you only have a subset?

I also moved my obdir out of the way (mv /usr/obj /usr/obj.tmp)
and did a "make clean" before "make".

good luck,
-Alfred

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