From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Mar 22 7:59:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from gatekeeper.orem.verio.net (gatekeeper.orem.verio.net [192.41.0.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 273CD37B71B for ; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 07:59:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fclift@verio.net) Received: from mx.dmz.orem.verio.net (mx.dmz.orem.verio.net [10.1.1.10]) by gatekeeper.orem.verio.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 494C33BF127 for ; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 08:59:49 -0700 (MST) Received: from vespa.dmz.orem.verio.net (vespa.dmz.orem.verio.net [10.1.1.59]) by mx.dmz.orem.verio.net (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f2MFxjn46739; Thu, 22 Mar 2001 08:59:46 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from fclift@verio.net) Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2001 09:28:07 -0700 (MST) From: Fred Clift X-Sender: fred@vespa.dmz.orem.verio.net To: Thierry Herbelot Cc: Paul Saab , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Remote boot, but not diskless operation In-Reply-To: <3AB31FB7.FF6AD0F7@herbelot.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > they've done this, but their newest BIOS (8 days old) still has a 0.78 > PXE revision (I've seen more recent DELL machines with a 0.99 - I assume > this is better) I have many intel MBs with built-in fxp nics that have 0.78 that work with 4.2's pxeboot just fine - I'm not trying to boot kernel remotely for local filesystesm, but I can't see why it wouldn't work. Off hand I'd guess that you have to put the right options in your dhcp server to tell it to find a 'local' root disk. Good luck. Fred -- Fred Clift - fclift@verio.net -- Remember: If brute force doesn't work, you're just not using enough. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message