From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 19 13:24:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.va.home.com (ha1.rdc1.va.home.com [24.2.32.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFBC437B5FA; Fri, 19 May 2000 13:24:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from john.baldwin.cx ([24.6.244.187]) by mail.rdc1.va.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.00 201-229-116) with ESMTP id <20000519202433.EZAP22611.mail.rdc1.va.home.com@john.baldwin.cx>; Fri, 19 May 2000 13:24:33 -0700 Content-Length: 2170 X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20000519145258.B4137@cs.mcgill.ca> Date: Fri, 19 May 2000 16:25:24 -0400 (EDT) From: John Baldwin To: Mathew Kanner Subject: Re: PXE Booting? Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, ps@FreeBSD.org Message-Id: <20000519202433.EZAP22611.mail.rdc1.va.home.com@john.baldwin.cx> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 . 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...] > > -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.cslab.vt.edu/~jobaldwi/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message