From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 2 10:24: 3 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D44F337B401 for ; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 10:24:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from chainsoftware.nl (chain.xs4all.nl [80.126.25.236]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D40A443EA9 for ; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 10:23:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sven@hazejager.nl) Received: from hazejager.nl (spitfire.chain.loc [192.168.0.2]) by chainsoftware.nl (8.12.6/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h02INjgj010922; Thu, 2 Jan 2003 19:23:48 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from sven@hazejager.nl) Message-ID: <3E1483B0.9080602@hazejager.nl> Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2003 19:23:44 +0100 From: Sven Hazejager User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.2.1) Gecko/20021130 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brooks Davis Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PXE Installation of RC2 References: <20030101173622.J80796-100000@proxy.chain.loc> <20030101104929.A7470@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <20030101104929.A7470@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-9.8 tests=IN_REP_TO,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,SPAM_PHRASE_02_03,USER_AGENT,USER_AGENT_MOZILLA_UA,X_ACCEPT_LANG X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.24 (chainsoftware.nl) Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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