Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 08:26:47 +0200 From: "Norbert Koch" <NKoch@demig.de> To: "Loren M. Lang" <lorenl@alzatex.com>, "FreeBSD Hackers" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: PXE Boot FreeBSD with Etherboot Message-ID: <000401c59f06$d0fa1e40$4801a8c0@ws-ew-3.W2KDEMIG> In-Reply-To: <20050812004254.GA16614@alzatex.com>
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> 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
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