From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 12 06:31:29 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE26716A41F for ; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 06:31:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from NKoch@demig.de) Received: from server.absolute-media.de (server.absolute-media.de [213.239.231.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37D8343D48 for ; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 06:31:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from NKoch@demig.de) Received: from localhost (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by server.absolute-media.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23D108B753; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 08:31:27 +0200 (CEST) Received: from server.absolute-media.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (server [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 26802-08; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 08:31:22 +0200 (CEST) Received: from firewall.demig (p5083ACB4.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [80.131.172.180]) by server.absolute-media.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A2098B3B3; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 08:31:22 +0200 (CEST) Received: from ws-ew-3 (ws-ew-3.w2kdemig [192.168.1.72]) by firewall.demig (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j7C6QlNw009860; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 08:26:47 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from NKoch@demig.de) From: "Norbert Koch" To: "Loren M. Lang" , "FreeBSD Hackers" Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 08:26:47 +0200 Message-ID: <000401c59f06$d0fa1e40$4801a8c0@ws-ew-3.W2KDEMIG> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2120.0 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <20050812004254.GA16614@alzatex.com> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at absolute-media.de Cc: Subject: RE: PXE Boot FreeBSD with Etherboot X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 06:31:29 -0000 > It seems there are some problems with using pxeboot in combination with > the network boot code from the etherboot project. I have tried many > combinations of options with no success. The result is very similar to > the following photo I found: > > http://photos.night-shade.org.uk/photo.php?photo=6364 > > I have tried it both on my local machine and in vmware with the same > result. It seems that somehow etherboot is not setting up the > environment the way pxeboot expects it too. Now the native pxe boot > code in vmware does load pxeboot correctly and I have successfully > booted freebsd in vmware, however I can't get the pxe boot code on my > network card to load at all, hence my need for etherboot. Also, both > pxeboot from FreeBSD 4.11 and 6.0-BETA2 crash the same way. I'm > assuming this is really a bug in etherboot, but I'm not sure how to get > a crash dump to play with. With vmware, it seems like I should be able > to save a memory image to examine, but I'm not sure how to do that. > Any ideas on a fix for this? Just my experience. I never handled to successfully pxeboot FreeBSD. Norbert