From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 7 23:44:53 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C9FF16A402; Wed, 7 Mar 2007 23:44:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from skip.ford@verizon.net) Received: from vms042pub.verizon.net (vms042pub.verizon.net [206.46.252.42]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C4C113C461; Wed, 7 Mar 2007 23:44:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from skip.ford@verizon.net) Received: from pool-71-168-248-177.cmdnnj.east.verizon.net ([71.168.205.64]) by vms042.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2-6.01 (built Apr 3 2006)) with ESMTPA id <0JEK00ETX4MKZ8ZI@vms042.mailsrvcs.net>; Wed, 07 Mar 2007 17:44:45 -0600 (CST) Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 18:44:52 -0500 From: Skip Ford In-reply-to: <45E35170.4020907@freebsd.org> To: Eric Anderson Mail-followup-to: Eric Anderson , Alexandre Sunny Kovalenko , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Message-id: <20070307234452.GB763@heather.menantico.com> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-disposition: inline References: <45E33F03.8030700@freebsd.org> <1172524396.43537.4.camel@RabbitsDen.RabbitsLawn.verizon.net> <45E35170.4020907@freebsd.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Alexandre Sunny Kovalenko Subject: Re: etherboot + pxeboot ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2007 23:44:53 -0000 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