Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 21:05:57 +0200 From: Marc Olzheim <marcolz@stack.nl> To: Emmanuel Chriqui <wingman@waika9.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PXEBOOT/TFTPBOOT + big MD_ROOT problem Message-ID: <20050419190557.GA82027@stack.nl> In-Reply-To: <20050419075158.6444A31931C@postfix4-2.free.fr> References: <20050419075158.6444A31931C@postfix4-2.free.fr>
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--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--
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