From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 7 18:51:42 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 7834E106564A for ; Wed, 7 Jan 2009 18:51:42 +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 369C68FC19 for ; Wed, 7 Jan 2009 18:51:41 +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 7EEE6A6925 for ; Wed, 7 Jan 2009 19:51:40 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4964F9BB.3020407@fsn.hu> Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 19:51:39 +0100 From: Attila Nagy User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090105) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org References: <4964EB20.5070709@fsn.hu> In-Reply-To: <4964EB20.5070709@fsn.hu> 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 19:51:40 +0100 (CET) Subject: Re: 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 18:51:42 -0000 Attila Nagy wrote: > 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, BTW, the last FreeBSD 8-CURRENT snapshot from december boots fine (at least I can get to sysinstall, I haven't yet tried installation, because I wouldn't like to touch the boot drives, which house the OpenSolaris image -that's why I want to boot from the net). I would like to do a FreeBSD vs. OpenSolaris comparison on this machine, so please help. :) Thanks,