From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 27 20:30:04 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE8E7106564A for ; Thu, 27 Nov 2008 20:30:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yanefbsd@gmail.com) Received: from rv-out-0506.google.com (rv-out-0506.google.com [209.85.198.230]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE15D8FC16 for ; Thu, 27 Nov 2008 20:30:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yanefbsd@gmail.com) Received: by rv-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id b25so1051454rvf.43 for ; Thu, 27 Nov 2008 12:30:04 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=PvqPenuvVpYGz9DmeETLhn87yArBGIcTaZeZ4PNSXPQ=; b=B3mCIB79WLmMl20iP1LQhboYSUrl1tXTOo8PQ4xqzDf7YuxR9ImMSI7gS+qKXCct1+ dta9uCTIojoAJsr4paU3EpJU/AuAt+Dtj3Uy+p0lGlZ3QRN55yQvqNu2ulfp4KgTBG09 V7O7+ehgVE8okt95vFa/lbTzn45A+DXtT0XhE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=xOtokCxxL5htD4vOgF2/iCEnDqEMLB1RuD3CN+8eB6qsCOHplzSmWX3JRMTHrgRj9Q xR+X05i+8+m5gQAINf9zqH9vH7C+TDD6Kwm7iwzyUvd0LSEHJjtOFuOkK1WzMUJ1W47T tL4X7zmqcg9xLJqwe4m3TMlkiNc3Qykb2Y9qo= Received: by 10.140.127.13 with SMTP id z13mr3500953rvc.145.1227817804147; Thu, 27 Nov 2008 12:30:04 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.140.158.13 with HTTP; Thu, 27 Nov 2008 12:30:04 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <7d6fde3d0811271230p512d1325i591e9711caa432d8@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 12:30:04 -0800 From: "Garrett Cooper" To: "Kevin Day" In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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> Cc: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?= , Mike Meyer , Peter Steele , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD boot menu is missing X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2008 20:30:05 -0000 On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 12:03 PM, Kevin Day 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: . 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