From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 7 18:07:52 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 689901065674 for ; Wed, 7 Jan 2009 18:07:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bra@fsn.hu) Received: from people.fsn.hu (people.fsn.hu [195.228.252.137]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 271818FC21 for ; Wed, 7 Jan 2009 18:07:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bra@fsn.hu) Received: from [172.16.129.134] (fw.axelero.hu [195.228.243.120]) by people.fsn.hu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88984A6771 for ; Wed, 7 Jan 2009 18:49:20 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4964EB20.5070709@fsn.hu> Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:49:20 +0100 From: Attila Nagy User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090105) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Stationery: 0.4.8.12 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.0.1 (people.fsn.hu [0.0.0.0]); Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:49:20 +0100 (CET) Subject: pxeboot does not work on Sun X4540 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 Jan 2009 18:07:52 -0000 Hello, I'm trying to boot FreeBSD 8-CURRENT on a Sun X4540 (2xquad core Opteron, 64 GB memory, 48 SATA disks (in fact 47, the 48th is a write optimized SSD, because this box is a 7210 OpenStorage "appliance", running OpenSolaris) on LSI controllers, nvidia NIC) from our boot server without success. The PXE on the NIC downloads pxeboot with TFTP, but then gets stuck at loading the kernel: http://people.fsn.hu/~bra/freebsd/20090107-freebsd-x4540/Screenshot-6.png pxeboot is configured to load the kernel via NFS (the default) and according to the tcpdump output, the client (X4540) issues an NFS GETPORT call and gets the response from the NFS server and then nothing else happens. I've tried with LOADER_TFTP_SUPPORT=YES and the result is the same, the only difference is that the machine stops sending packets after the first TFTP read request (for /boot/boot.4th.split), which doesn't exist, so the server sends the answer and then nothing comes back from the X4540 box. It seems that it gets to send exactly one packet, then freezes. What else should be done to debug this problem? Thanks,