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Date:      Fri, 19 May 2000 16:25:24 -0400 (EDT)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Mathew Kanner <mat@cs.mcgill.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, ps@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: PXE Booting?
Message-ID:  <20000519202433.EZAP22611.mail.rdc1.va.home.com@john.baldwin.cx>
In-Reply-To: <20000519145258.B4137@cs.mcgill.ca>

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On 19-May-00 Mathew Kanner wrote:
> 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?

The choice is made at compile time via some Make variables in
sys/boot/i386/loader, IIRC.  The real person you need to talk to is
Paul Saab <ps@FreeBSD.org>.  He should be able to help you with the
problem you are having.

>       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...]
> 
>       

-- 

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