From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 27 12:11:30 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DF8D1065670 for ; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:11:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fmember@gmail.com) Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.228]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DE6F8FC14 for ; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:11:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fmember@gmail.com) Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id 50so3350610wra.13 for ; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 05:11:29 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; bh=GDNsSNj0EShEAGHZKArP81PE3icHibhMoilSYwP/WUM=; b=bHMvDRjtAbjrVL7UZS07X7fts1zpSiLrRpBZ7g0pdZey7P+LbH4G+X9KqITQPi2WirojI33x29lSlAjDRTzcLC3fuPSMXwaTmLZLeMQkmCLDQYvZUCwxDFLlj55YVpJevOSwyFJVn7pyA0m9ArJHdJzImTbZTPZmCevk6UwWxMM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=SFD9qrpMuUFILH7DuM4Wj2GB1jWPynOfry5X6yMHjwVydMN05Y5jUmxDU4TE2t17BcizPR59vZ5XcVSkdDCYzmsgc5mdRX30fKH1jzbd9+4tXUjijNliESR2AGeFVYe242FvDb12Yu2PB9H+N8XTOj7X/BSCi0tREqGNdh5D2W4= Received: by 10.114.151.13 with SMTP id y13mr1129975wad.148.1206618265896; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 04:44:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.114.154.19 with HTTP; Thu, 27 Mar 2008 04:44:25 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <2c16b4710803270444g7ce459bbxddb4b5a3d2eb41bc@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:44:25 +0100 From: "don Juan" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Error while pxeboot setup FreeBSD 7.0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 12:11:30 -0000 I wander if pxeboot setup for FreeBSD 7.0 is different from pxeboot with 6.2? I did sucessfully network pxeboot setup of Freebsd 6.2 using following DHCP configuration, based mostly on this how to: http://networking.ringofsaturn.com/Unix/pxeboot.php, host host1 { hardware ethernet 00:0c:29:1f:5e:3c; fixed-address 192.168.0.114; next-server 192.168.81.131; filename "/FreeBSD/boot/pxeboot"; # option root-path "/usr/var/www/install/FreeBSD"; # NFS path which will be used as temp root partition. } where: /usr/var/www/install/FreeBSD contains FreeBSD installation files, Tftp root is set to / usr/var/www/install With Freebsd 6.2 installation files, pxeboot executes and reads root file system from network and loads kernel via NFS. An OS kernel executes and starts installation process which can be finished manually. If mfsroot contains proper install.cfg, then installation can be completely unattended. But with FreeBSD 7.0 installation files process fails somewhere after pxeboot is started. On Client screen it can be seen: Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf /boot/kernel/kernel text=0x6fd45c ... and after that, server reboots.