From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 16 10:58:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from herbelot.dyndns.org (s014.dhcp212-24.cybercable.fr [212.198.24.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FC3837B71E for ; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 10:58:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from thierry@herbelot.com) Received: from herbelot.com (multi.herbelot.nom [192.168.1.2]) by herbelot.dyndns.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA55452; Fri, 16 Mar 2001 19:57:49 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from thierry@herbelot.com) Message-ID: <3AB2622D.E6E3DE2C@herbelot.com> Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 19:57:49 +0100 From: Thierry Herbelot X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rohit Rakshe Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Remote boot, but not diskless operation References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, One way to boot the kernel over the network is to use PXE (if your machine is recent enough to support it *well* : that is with a recent version of the PXE firmware) there is no real document on PXE booting you can read a note by Alfred Perlstein on , the manpage for pxeboot, the code in rc.diskless{1,2}, the configuration of the boot server with dhcp and tftp/nfs (you may have to tweak /etc/fstab in order to mount a root partition which was not used to load /kernel ?) there is also somme documentation on Intel's web site I'm trying to use PXE, but it's not completly reliable (sometimes pxeboot just crashes) TfH Rohit Rakshe wrote: > > Hello, > > I am running FreeBSD 4.1 on an Intel-III box. It is not a diskless > machine, so root fs is still local, but I need to boot kernel over > ethernet. > > Reason for such a requirement: I am doing some kernel debugging and it is > relatively quicker (after a panic) to recompile kernel on a server and > reboot the test machine with the kernel on the server. > > Currently available info doesn't seem to help me a lot. Any suggestions ? > Thanks a lot !! > > - Rohit > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message -- Thierry Herbelot To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message