Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 12:29:27 +0300 From: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> To: "Loren M. Lang" <lorenl@alzatex.com> Cc: Norbert Koch <NKoch@demig.de>, FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: PXE Boot FreeBSD with Etherboot Message-ID: <E1E3Vqy-000CTa-6v@cs1.cs.huji.ac.il> In-Reply-To: Message from "Loren M. Lang" <lorenl@alzatex.com> of "Fri, 12 Aug 2005 02:08:54 PDT." <20050812090854.GA16790@alzatex.com>
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> > --+QahgC5+KEYLbs62 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 10:26:28AM +0300, Danny Braniss wrote: > > > > It seems there are some problems with using pxeboot in combination wi= > th > > > > 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: > > > >=20 > > > > http://photos.night-shade.org.uk/photo.php?photo=3D6364 > > > >=20 > > > > 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 g= > et > > > > a crash dump to play with. With vmware, it seems like I should be ab= > le > > > > to save a memory image to examine, but I'm not sure how to do that. > > > > Any ideas on a fix for this? > > >=20 > > > Just my experience. I never handled to successfully pxeboot FreeBSD. > >=20 > > pxeboot works fine! i have some 50 hosts pxeboot'ing that say so. > >=20 > > it's etherboot loading pxeboot that does not work. > > I do believe that the bugs in etherboot, and it should be fixed, but > there may also be a workaround that could be added to pxeboot to make it > work until etherboot is fixed. Now etherboot loading pxelinux has > always worked find. pxelinux then uses the pxe environment to load it's > configuration environment, plus your choice of a tagged kernel so it > should have what it takes to load freebsd, even if it's not compliant > with the spec. If I could just find a way to get a dump of the > environment of etherboot+pxeboot, either using vmware or my pc, I think > that would be the best clue as to the problem in etherboot. in my case it was etherboot which i couldn't get to work (it is a National something or other on a PCengine) danny
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