Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2007 23:19:49 -0500 From: "Alexandre \"Sunny\" Kovalenko" <gaijin.k@gmail.com> To: Balgansuren Batsukh <balgaa@micom.mn> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD-6.2, 7.0-BETA1 on X60 Message-ID: <1196741989.823.20.camel@RabbitsDen> In-Reply-To: <001001c835b0$f2f29700$c801000a@balgaa> References: <004d01c8214d$b5a02970$c801000a@balgaa> <4732E7D9.4040804@wlink.com.np> <001001c835b0$f2f29700$c801000a@balgaa>
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On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 21:31 +0800, Balgansuren Batsukh wrote: > Hello All, > > I tried to install FreeBSD on X60 using PXE boot, but unsuccessfully finish > my attempt. > > When it start PXE boot it get IP address from DHCP, download PXE boot file > from TFTP server, > then trying to load kernel image from TFTP server. > > After 10-20 minutes it give me error message "can't load kernel", I tried > many times load boot/kernel/kernel, but same result. > > I guess PXE boot read much longer time to load kernel file and suddenly give > me error message. > > I followed instruction on http://www.hack.org/mc/freebsd-x60.html > > I made X60---->LAN switch---->TFTP/DHCP/NFS server and even tried > X60---cross-over cable---->TFTP/DHCP/NFS server. > > Is there any suggestion? I have built my X60 from such a setup and then used it as the "FixIt" environment more then a few times. Here are relevant bits from the server (watch out for the line wrapping): === /usr/local/etc/dhcpd.conf (I am using isc-dhcp3-server-3.0.5_2) option domain-name "rabbitslawn.verizon.net"; option domain-name-servers rabbitslawn.verizon.net; default-lease-time 600; max-lease-time 7200; authoritative; ddns-update-style none; log-facility local7; server-name "twinhead"; server-identifier 10.0.3.236; next-server 10.0.3.236; subnet 10.0.3.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 { range 10.0.3.33 10.0.3.64; option routers 10.0.3.242; option domain-name-servers 10.0.3.242; option root-path "/SHARED/tftpboot"; filename "boot/pxeboot"; } === /etc/exports (excerpt) /SHARED -alldirs === /etc/inetd.conf (excerpt) tftp dgram udp wait root /usr/libexec/tftpd tftpd -u sunny -l -s /SHARED/tftpboot === /etc/rc.conf (excerpt) nfs_server_enable="YES" rpcbind_enable="YES" === /SHARED/tftpboot Contains fairly old (February 2007) snapshot of then 7-CURRENT with two modifications === /SHARED/tftpboot/boot/loader.rc echo Loading Kernel... load /boot/kernel/kernel echo Loading mfsroot... load -t mfs_root /mfsroot echo booting... echo \007\007 echo initializing h0h0magic... set vfs.root.mountfrom="ufs:/dev/md0c" boot === /SHARED/tftpboot/mfsroot Is the decompressed version of /SHARED/tftpboot/boot/mfsroot.gz. I can confirm that stopping NFS on the server will give the symptoms roughly corresponding to the ones you are describing, so the first thing I would recommend checking is the ability to mount your equivalent of the "/SHARED/tftpboot" above. Hopefully this is all I have done to get this to work -- I have picked most of it from someone's web page, but I could not find original URL ATM. > > Regards, > Balgaa > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" -- Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko <gaijin.k@gmail.com>
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