Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 12:48:32 -0500 From: "Matthew Zahorik" <matt@thebiz.net> To: <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Netbooting FreeBSD 4.0/Intel? Message-ID: <012801bf9039$029db9d0$1401eed8@mahatma>
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This was originally posted to freebsd-questions, but I didn't get a response. I'm hoping that someone in here has successfully netbooted a FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE box on Intel EtherExpress Pro 100+ cards and can share their story. Since I wrote this message, I have tried etherboot 4.4.5. Still no go. - Matt -- Matthew Zahorik Director of Systems and Networking - BiznessOnline.com matt@thebiz.net President of AlbanyNet Inc. - a BiznessOnline subsidiary maz@albany.net Voice: (518) 292-1001 Fax: (518) 626-0793 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matthew Zahorik" <matt@thebiz.net> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 1:40 PM Subject: Netbooting FreeBSD 4.0/Intel? : Does anyone have a howto on netbooting FreeBSD 4.0/Intel with Etherboot? : : I've easily managed to netboot my FreeBSD 4.0/Alpha boxes with the included : Alpha SRM netboot utility. I really like the bootp/NFS solution used by : netboot. It's quite clean, especially since I'm mounting root from this : same box. : : My Intel boxes are proving to be more difficult. : : Netboot is depreciated on Intel, and doesn't even seem to compile on FreeBSD : 4.0. Either way, it doesn't support the Intel Pro/100+ cards (82559 based) : I have in my Intel boxes. No bootp/NFS for the Intel boxes. :-( : : So I turned to Etherboot as suggested in many Usenet postings and the list : archives. : : I hand compiled the latest, etherboot 4.4.4. That didn't work. (see below) : : I used ports to install etherboot 4.2.13. (Had to change the Makefile since : it specifies 4.2.11, which isn't available anymore) This too didn't work. : : In both cases, I wrote floppyload.bin and eepro100.lzrun to a floppy. : Etherboot starts, gets its IP address from bootp, TFTP's the kernel, quickly : says "Loading Segment 1", "Loading Segment 2", "Loading Segment 3", and then : promptly reboots the machine. : : The kernel is compiled with all the option BOOTP.* bits - it should work. I've even : tried the generic kernel that I used to boot the server, knowing it would crash when trying : to mount root, but at least I'd see *something*. No go. : : So, if anyone has any pointers or a list of things you did to get this work, : I'd appreciate it. : : Thanks! : : - Matt : : -- : Matthew Zahorik Director of Systems and Networking - BiznessOnline.com : matt@thebiz.net President of AlbanyNet Inc. - a BiznessOnline subsidiary : maz@albany.net Voice: (518) 292-1001 Fax: (518) 626-0793 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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