Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 21:10:14 -0400 From: taxman <taxman@acd.net> To: Eduardo Viruena Silva <mrspock@esfm.ipn.mx>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: diskless FreeBSD 5.0 Message-ID: <200304102110.14769.taxman@acd.net> In-Reply-To: <20030410175507.D69511@Gina.esfm.ipn.mx> References: <20030410175507.D69511@Gina.esfm.ipn.mx>
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On Thursday 10 April 2003 07:40 pm, Eduardo Viruena Silva wrote: > Hello pals! > > I'm trying to make an x-term out of a pentium II/366MHz computer. > > I believe I have successfully installed the operating system > for my x-term in the /usr/diskless directory on my server. > Configured nfs, dhcp and tftp and anyone of them works fine. > I compiled a kernel that includes the following options: > > options BOOTP > options BOOTP_COMPAT > options BOOTP_NFSROOT > > and put it in the /tftpboot directory. > > Now, I started my xterm with etherboot. Etherboot recognizes > the network configuration. > > Loading ROM image... > ROM segment 0x1000 legth 0x4000 reloc 0x8f00 > Boot from (N)etwork or from (L)ocal? N > Etherboot/32 version 4.6.1 (GPL) for [3C5x9] > Probing...[3C5x9]3C5x9 board on ISA at 0x300 - 10base2 > Ethernet address: 00:20:AF:39:55:F2 > Searching for server (DHCP)... > Me: 192.168.123.37, Server 192.168.123.112, Gateway 192.168.123.254 > Loading kernel (ELF/FreeBSD)... done > > Now, the kernel loads, suddenly it freezes, and my computer reboots. > According to some letters in the list, I saw somebody suggesting > to add CPUTYPE=i686 to the /etc/make.conf file before compiling > the kernel. I did it but the result is the same. > > Where did I go wrong? nowhere that i know of. I seem to recall a series of messages on -current to the effect that diskless booting was just broken on 5.0-release. You'll need to run -current with all that goes along with that or go back to 4.8 or 4-stable. See: http://mired.org:8080/5.0-not-production.html > Could you help me? nope, i on't know anything about it, sorry Tim
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