From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 12 08:31:28 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 C334C16A41F for ; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 08:31:28 +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 1B62543D48 for ; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 08:31:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from NKoch@demig.de) Received: from localhost (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by server.absolute-media.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C97A8B112; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 10:31:26 +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 00855-06; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 10:31:22 +0200 (CEST) Received: from firewall.demig (p5083ACB4.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [80.131.172.180]) by server.absolute-media.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FEA98B637; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 10:31:22 +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 j7C8U6UC012001; Fri, 12 Aug 2005 10:30:06 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from NKoch@demig.de) From: "Norbert Koch" To: "Danny Braniss" Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 10:30:05 +0200 Message-ID: <000401c59f18$0a938a40$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 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2120.0 In-Reply-To: X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at absolute-media.de 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 08:31:28 -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. I did not try etherboot. I tried a pc104 board with bios's internal pxe function for the integrated intel 82551/9er chip. And it is reported that e.g. linux boots successfully on these boards. I manage to boot from disk with etherboot (5.2.4), but not using pxe. Norbert