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Date:      Wed, 30 Apr 2014 09:22:24 -0400
From:      Mark Saad <nonesuch@longcount.org>
To:        amine tay <amine.tay91@gmail.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: vm+ipxe+pxeboot fail
Message-ID:  <FCF01B13-EAB3-4DF8-A9BE-B4A1A0703EE5@longcount.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAMMGsZKLkXPJAyuoiNoRo3DQEOgzMps-D7-iTThz8ARPyjZXTg@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <CAMMGsZKLkXPJAyuoiNoRo3DQEOgzMps-D7-iTThz8ARPyjZXTg@mail.gmail.com>

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> On Apr 30, 2014, at 4:10 AM, amine tay <amine.tay91@gmail.com> wrote:
>=20
> Hi everyone,
>=20
> Lately I had some problems, trying to get FreeBSD to PXE boot. (Actually
> I'm using a VMware virtual machine.) First I'm using iPXE 1.0.0 and then
> load and launch the FreeBSD pxeboot
> <http://man.freebsd.org/pxeboot>loader. But I'm getting this :
> http://forums.freebsd.org/viewtopic.php?f=3D4&t=3D45901
> When using isc-dhcp as DHCP server I'm getting the error but when using
> dnsmasq everything works fine.
>=20
> The problem seems that the client when booting is sending 2 DHCP requests
> and therefore gets two different IP addresses, the first one sent by the
> ROM and the second one by the FreeBSD
> pxeboot<http://man.freebsd.org/pxeboot>loader.
>=20
> I found somewhere in some posts that the pxe.c file is doing a second
> bootprequest because it fails to get cached DHCP data from the ROM.
>=20
> Any help or more ideas would be appreciated.

It looked like you either do not have options rootpath set in dhcpd.conf , e=
tc/exports is mis configured , the nfs server is disabled or if you have loa=
der built with tftp support you do not have a tftp server setup / running .=20=


Can you sent the dhcpd.conf the exports file off the server ?

Mark saad | mark.saad@longcount.org=20


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