From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 19 19:05:59 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D41A916A4CF; Tue, 19 Apr 2005 19:05:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mailhost.stack.nl (vaak.stack.nl [131.155.140.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18CE143D2F; Tue, 19 Apr 2005 19:05:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marcolz@stack.nl) Received: from hammer.stack.nl (hammer.stack.nl [IPv6:2001:610:1108:5010::153]) by mailhost.stack.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDCEA1F13B; Tue, 19 Apr 2005 21:05:57 +0200 (CEST) Received: by hammer.stack.nl (Postfix, from userid 333) id A4C44641C; Tue, 19 Apr 2005 21:05:57 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 21:05:57 +0200 From: Marc Olzheim To: Emmanuel Chriqui Message-ID: <20050419190557.GA82027@stack.nl> References: <20050419075158.6444A31931C@postfix4-2.free.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="wac7ysb48OaltWcw" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050419075158.6444A31931C@postfix4-2.free.fr> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD hammer.stack.nl 5.4-STABLE FreeBSD 5.4-STABLE X-URL: http://www.stack.nl/~marcolz/ User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PXEBOOT/TFTPBOOT + big MD_ROOT problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 19:06:00 -0000 --wac7ysb48OaltWcw Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 09:52:07AM +0200, Emmanuel Chriqui wrote: > Hi,=20 >=20 > I'm trying to make very big MD_ROOT (300MB) sent using PXEBOOT+TFTPBOOT. = No > NFS. Any reasons for not using NFS ? > I use i386/5.4RC2/TFTPD/PXEBOOT+TFTPBOOT .=20 > (same pb with a 5.3).=20 >=20 > Am I missing something obvious?=20 I'm not sure. tftp itself is able to handle 32MB+ files, but maybe the loader isn't. A workaround, no using NFS, could be to tftp a second filesystem image on boot and mount that from the root filesystem. Marc --wac7ysb48OaltWcw Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFCZVaVezjnobFOgrERAkRHAKC7R8Z1RCpP2qphW0k0eo0j14n3hwCg0NLn NYl2XCthRyxkbLTiFzemy7k= =j20q -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --wac7ysb48OaltWcw--