Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 12:30:04 -0800 From: "Garrett Cooper" <yanefbsd@gmail.com> To: "Kevin Day" <kevin@your.org> Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>, Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, Peter Steele <psteele@maxiscale.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD boot menu is missing Message-ID: <7d6fde3d0811271230p512d1325i591e9711caa432d8@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <AB85B81E-878E-4F91-B494-456E2FDC36D1@your.org> References: <2ACA3DE8F9758A48B8BE2C7A847F91F240CE6B@polaris.maxiscale.com> <2ACA3DE8F9758A48B8BE2C7A847F91F240CE99@polaris.maxiscale.com> <20081126190545.17b79195@bhuda.mired.org> <2ACA3DE8F9758A48B8BE2C7A847F91F240CEB4@polaris.maxiscale.com> <861vwx4fd5.fsf@ds4.des.no> <2ACA3DE8F9758A48B8BE2C7A847F91F240CEBF@polaris.maxiscale.com> <86myfl15cl.fsf@ds4.des.no> <2ACA3DE8F9758A48B8BE2C7A847F91F240CEC4@polaris.maxiscale.com> <86wsepymw0.fsf@ds4.des.no> <AB85B81E-878E-4F91-B494-456E2FDC36D1@your.org>
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On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Kevin Day <kevin@your.org> wrote: > > On Nov 27, 2008, at 1:44 PM, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote: >> >> I wouldn't use a sysinstall script. >> >> Set up a file system (say /nfsroot) on an NFS server in your lab. > > > Just in case anyone needs a real step-by-step guide to getting a diskless > PXE/NFS boot going, I wrote this up a little while ago. > > http://sigsegv.org/wiki/How_to_do_a_PXE_netboot_install_of_FreeBSD > > The existing documentation was either a bit out of date, glossed over som= e > of it or just flat out didn't work for me. Takes an existing running syst= em, > clones it into /nfsroot, enables dhcpd/tftpd/nfsd, and relies on rc.diskl= ess > to make the magic happen after boot. That's a good brief guide, but a lot of the information is already contained in: <http://people.freebsd.org/~alfred/pxe/en_US.ISO8859-1/articl= es/pxe/article.html>. That reminds me that I need to add some documentation for booting OpenFirmware Mac's with Netboot (some experiences that I had at Cisco that I wanted to pass down for others). -Garrett
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