From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 25 13:10:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail-01.cdsnet.net (mail-01.cdsnet.net [206.107.16.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B605515476 for ; Thu, 25 Mar 1999 13:10:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mrcpu@internetcds.com) Received: (qmail 25437 invoked from network); 25 Mar 1999 21:09:48 -0000 Received: from schizo.cdsnet.net (204.118.244.32) by mail.cdsnet.net with SMTP; 25 Mar 1999 21:09:48 -0000 Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 13:09:13 -0800 (PST) From: Jaye Mathisen X-Sender: mrcpu@schizo.cdsnet.net To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Ugh, new boot loader/diskless boot problem. Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I got a couple boot proms for an Intel PRO100 care from www.incom.de. Set up my trusty tftp/bootp stuff, card boots a DOS diskette image remotely just fine. So then I try a 2.8MB DOS image. Works fine. Put fbsdboot.exe and /kernel on the image. Boots the DOS part fine, but fbsdboot.exe won't work. So then I try a kernel.flp diskette from 3.1-stable. It loads the kernel floppy fine via TFTP, but then can't start the actual boot process, failing with a "Read Error". This PROM boots a SolariS X86 floppy remotely fine. It boots Linux floppies fine, it boots DOS floppies fine, but it won't boot our FreeBSD blocks. It will not boot a 2.2.8 floppy set of boot blocks either. Any ideas much appreciated. I'd really like to remote boot these, and getting this working would be great for supporting a whole bunches of cards and remote boot, since the incom people make PROM's for something like 100+ cards... I would be willing to send a card and PROM to somebody to play with if it would help... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message