Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2005 13:59:47 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net> To: josemi@freebsd.jazztel.es (Jose M Rodriguez) Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PXE booting a 5.4-RC2 system ... Message-ID: <200504181859.j3IIxlgt056297@aurora.sol.net> In-Reply-To: <200504180830.03116.freebsd@redesjm.local> from "Jose M Rodriguez" at Apr 18, 2005 08:30:01 AM
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> try what is used in the CD install boot: mount a kernel and use a > mfsroot. This maybe even more easy to setup. Take a look into boot/ > of CD1. Hmm. Closer. Actually it's a bit less easy to set up, since it involves downloading 650MB which is a bit much. I actually tried the "bootonly" image first (not sure what it's supposed to do) but that exhibited all sorts of strange stuff prior to crashing. I'm glad I realized that you can actually vnconfig an ISO image and then mount_cd9660 it. This is probably obvious to many, and in fact it's how we get the files off floppy, but still... UNIX variants have gotten so featureful, sometimes it's hard to remember all the things you can do. ;-) Taking /boot from disc1 got us through the kernel load but then panicked with a "Can't find init". <time passes> That seems to have been solved by putting set vfs.root.mountfrom="ufs:/dev/md0c" in loader.rc. At least I get into sysinstall. Now to try installing. :-) 5.* is going to take a little getting used to. Generally looks nice but also a bit foreign. Thanks for the hint, ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN) With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.
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