From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 12 07:26:29 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 D1D4B16A41F for ; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 07:26:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from danny@cs.huji.ac.il) Received: from cs1.cs.huji.ac.il (cs1.cs.huji.ac.il [132.65.16.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6280E43D45 for ; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 07:26:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from danny@cs.huji.ac.il) Received: from pampa.cs.huji.ac.il ([132.65.80.32]) by cs1.cs.huji.ac.il with esmtp id 1E3Tvw-000AOz-2v; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 10:26:28 +0300 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.0 06/18/2004 with nmh-1.0.4 To: "Norbert Koch" In-Reply-To: Message from "Norbert Koch" of "Fri, 12 Aug 2005 08:26:47 +0200." <000401c59f06$d0fa1e40$4801a8c0@ws-ew-3.W2KDEMIG> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 10:26:28 +0300 From: Danny Braniss Message-ID: Cc: FreeBSD Hackers , "Loren M. Lang" 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 07:26:30 -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. pxeboot works fine! i have some 50 hosts pxeboot'ing that say so. it's etherboot loading pxeboot that does not work. danny