Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 19:23:44 +0100 From: Sven Hazejager <sven@hazejager.nl> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PXE Installation of RC2 Message-ID: <3E1483B0.9080602@hazejager.nl> In-Reply-To: <20030101104929.A7470@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <20030101173622.J80796-100000@proxy.chain.loc> <20030101104929.A7470@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
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Brooks Davis wrote: > For the archives, this is way too much work. Instead point tftp and NFS > at the mounted ISO and you're done. Doing that results in a "can't load kernel" error at the boot prompt. Pointing to /mnt (where the ISO is mounted) or /mnt/boot results in the same error. > Unfortunatly, I don't have any real ideas here. Off hand, this doesn't > sound like the sort of problem PXE could cause. It's just not involved > with that part of the process. Are you sure the kernel and loader you > used were the right ones? Yes, definitely. It just seems that the installation process fails to make the target slice bootable. Perhaps it tries to load the boot* files over TFTP and fails? Who knows; I don't see any errors... :-( Thanks for your reply anyway. Suggestions anyone? Sven To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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