Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 18:44:52 -0500 From: Skip Ford <skip.ford@verizon.net> To: Eric Anderson <anderson@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Alexandre Sunny Kovalenko <alex.kovalenko@verizon.net> Subject: Re: etherboot + pxeboot ? Message-ID: <20070307234452.GB763@heather.menantico.com> In-Reply-To: <45E35170.4020907@freebsd.org> References: <45E33F03.8030700@freebsd.org> <1172524396.43537.4.camel@RabbitsDen.RabbitsLawn.verizon.net> <45E35170.4020907@freebsd.org>
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Eric Anderson wrote: > On 02/26/07 15:13, Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko wrote: > >On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 14:11 -0600, Eric Anderson wrote: > >>Has anyone successfully used etherboot to load pxeboot via tftp (or > >>NFS), and then NFS boot a FreeBSD -CURRENT box? > > > >I did install -CURRENT snapshot using on-board ROM of my Intel PRO/1000, > >since my laptop does not have optical drive. I realize that it is not > >quite what you are looking for, but if you think any server-side > >configuration bits could be useful to you, please, let me know. > > > Nah, I can successfully NFS boot a -CURRENT box just fine. It's only > when using etherboot that it doesn't work (it gives an "Unable to load" > error). Loading the pxeboot file via pxelinux ends up with a BTX halted > crash that I don't understand. I just setup my LAN to do this within the last week. I received the same error when trying to etherboot pxeboot, with or without PXE emulation enabled in etherboot. I didn't really try to figure out why since it works fine just etherbooting a kernel. Half a dozen machines here with old NICs are etherbooting current over NFS just fine. No pxeboot or tftp, though. -- Skip
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