From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 17 18:46:01 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93D3816B021; Wed, 17 May 2006 18:46:01 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from marck@rinet.ru) Received: from woozle.rinet.ru (woozle.rinet.ru [195.54.192.68]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C79A443D91; Wed, 17 May 2006 18:45:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from marck@rinet.ru) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woozle.rinet.ru (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k4HIjZsR080892; Wed, 17 May 2006 22:45:35 +0400 (MSD) (envelope-from marck@rinet.ru) Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 22:45:35 +0400 (MSD) From: Dmitry Morozovsky To: Robert Watson In-Reply-To: <20060517180855.X69235@fledge.watson.org> Message-ID: <20060517224422.N80741@woozle.rinet.ru> References: <20060517180855.X69235@fledge.watson.org> X-NCC-RegID: ru.rinet X-OpenPGP-Key-ID: 6B691B03 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (woozle.rinet.ru [0.0.0.0]); Wed, 17 May 2006 22:45:35 +0400 (MSD) Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pxeboot with amd64 vs i386 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 18:46:03 -0000 On Wed, 17 May 2006, Robert Watson wrote: RW> I have my first SMP amd64 box at the office now to work with, and thought it RW> was all going to be easy. Sadly not, or at least, not yet. :-) RW> RW> I configured dhcpd, tftpd, and nfs to export the 6.1 install CD from my RW> notebook. All good so far. The problem is as follows: if I insert the 6.1 RW> i386 release CD, it all works great. If I insert the amd64 CD, then I get RW> the following after pxeboot has been going for a bit: RW> RW> (root@bloom.cse.buffalo.edu, Sun May 7 02:16:38 UTC 2006) RW> Can't work out which disk we are booting from.Guessed BIOS device 0xffffffff RW> not found by probes, defaulting to disk0: RW> can't load 'kernel' RW> RW> At that point, lsdev shows the disk devices, but not the pxeboot "disk", RW> which leaves me without a kernel, etc. So something is different between RW> the i386 and amd64 disks, or maybe there's a problem with my BIOS. I was RW> wondering if anyone else had set up a similar configuration and had it work? Well, I can try connecting ATAPI CDROM to our DL145G2 not active yet tomorrow to give it a try. PXE did not work for me either, see previous threads. Sincerely, D.Marck [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- marck@rinet.ru *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------