From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 10 18:06:35 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8872C37B401 for ; Thu, 10 Apr 2003 18:06:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp.acd.net (smtp.acd.net [207.179.102.146]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B7E343F93 for ; Thu, 10 Apr 2003 18:06:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from taxman@ACD.NET) Received: from 207.179.85.17 ([207.179.85.17]) by smtp.acd.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5329); Thu, 10 Apr 2003 21:07:29 -0400 From: taxman To: Eduardo Viruena Silva , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 21:10:14 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 References: <20030410175507.D69511@Gina.esfm.ipn.mx> In-Reply-To: <20030410175507.D69511@Gina.esfm.ipn.mx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200304102110.14769.taxman@acd.net> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 11 Apr 2003 01:07:29.0759 (UTC) FILETIME=[B9526EF0:01C2FFC6] Subject: Re: diskless FreeBSD 5.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 01:06:35 -0000 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