Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 18:11:50 +0100 (BST) From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> To: stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: pxeboot with amd64 vs i386 Message-ID: <20060517180855.X69235@fledge.watson.org>
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I have my first SMP amd64 box at the office now to work with, and thought it was all going to be easy. Sadly not, or at least, not yet. :-) I configured dhcpd, tftpd, and nfs to export the 6.1 install CD from my notebook. All good so far. The problem is as follows: if I insert the 6.1 i386 release CD, it all works great. If I insert the amd64 CD, then I get the following after pxeboot has been going for a bit: (root@bloom.cse.buffalo.edu, Sun May 7 02:16:38 UTC 2006) Can't work out which disk we are booting from.Guessed BIOS device 0xffffffff not found by probes, defaulting to disk0: can't load 'kernel' At that point, lsdev shows the disk devices, but not the pxeboot "disk", which leaves me without a kernel, etc. So something is different between the i386 and amd64 disks, or maybe there's a problem with my BIOS. I was wondering if anyone else had set up a similar configuration and had it work? Robert N M Watson
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