From owner-freebsd-net Tue Feb 6 10:13:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from aifhs8.alcatel.fr (aifhs8.alcatel.fr [212.208.74.153]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D0F237B69C; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 10:13:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from frmta003.netfr.alcatel.fr (frmta003.netfr.alcatel.fr [155.132.251.32]) by aifhs8.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP2) with SMTP id TAA03287; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 19:13:13 +0100 (MET) Received: by frmta003.netfr.alcatel.fr(Lotus SMTP MTA v4.6.7 (934.1 12-30-1999)) id C12569EB.00641367 ; Tue, 6 Feb 2001 19:13:05 +0100 X-Lotus-FromDomain: ALCATEL From: Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Message-ID: Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 19:13:01 +0100 Subject: What is the latest "known-good" PXE build ? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello, I'm trying to use the pxeboot loader from 4.2-RELEASE, to diskless boot some rack-mount PCs. Using documentation from Alfred Perlstein and Mike Smith, I've configured a DHCP server and a tftp server, and I'm still having problems with at least one machine not being able to start each time it is powered on : BTX halts (sometimes it is "Stack underflow", some other times, it goes to a register crash dump, with eip often equal to ffffff - I'm going to redirect the BIOS output to a serial port) the configuration of the server must be correct as the diskless machine sometimes can start (it loads pxeboot and the kernel via tftp, and then the rest of the partitions via NFS). The BIOS trace says the PXE is revision 2.0, build 68 : is there some other, perhaps better version of it ? (the on-board NIC on the machine is an fxp) TfH PS : As I've seen, rc has been modified to get rid of "early_nfs_mounts". After this change, the rc.diskless2 does no longer work, as this script uses /usr/bin/find and /usr is not yet mounted. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message