Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 14:52:58 -0400 From: Mathew Kanner <mat@cs.mcgill.ca> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Mathew Kanner <mat@cs.mcgill.ca>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: PXE Booting? Message-ID: <20000519145258.B4137@cs.mcgill.ca> In-Reply-To: John Baldwin's message [RE: PXE Booting?] as of Thu, May 18, 2000 at 04:42:13PM -0400 References: <20000518153720.A821@cs.mcgill.ca> <20000518204128.UWXD22611.mail.rdc1.va.home.com@john.baldwin.cx>
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On May 18, John Baldwin wrote: > > On 18-May-00 Mathew Kanner wrote: > > [... snip ...] > > Is there an easier way? Has anyone done this before? > > It is done and committed to both RELENG_4 and -current. If you > install a machine with a recent 4.x snap from releng4.FreeBSD.org > you can read the pxeboot(8) manpage for more info on setting it up. > This will also be in release 4.1 scheduled to be released in a couple > of months. Thanks, I got it and compiled it (from releng_4) and I can't seem to get it to work. The manual mentions that I can select (at compile time) NFS vs TFTP, but I couldn't find where I can define this. Should I try to get a newer PXE image for the card? Thanks, --Mat [...boot info typed from screen, probably contains errors...] Intel UNDI, PXE-2.0 (build 067) Copyright (C) 1997,1998 Intel Corp DHCP MAC ADDR: XX XX XX XX XX CLIENT UP: XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX MASK: 255.255.255.0 DHCP IP: XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX GATEWAY UP: XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX PXE Loader 1.00 Building the boot loader arguments Relocating the loader and the BTX Starting the BTX loader BTX loader 1.0 BTX version is 1.01 PXE version 2.1 real mode entry point @9df3:0106 BIOS 640kb/139936kB avail... FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.7 (mat@...., Thu May 18 ... 2000) pxe_open: server addr: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx pxe_open: server path: /pxeroot pxe_open: gateway ip: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx \ Hit [Enter] to boot immedialtly [counts down] can't load 'kernel' ok ls open '/' failed: unkown error (13) ok lsdev [...] pxe @ 0xd830 xxxxxxx@:/boot/pxeboot [...end of boot info...] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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