Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 15:53:55 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Tomasz Paszkowski <ns88@ns88.eu.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: diskless boot failures with PXE 2.0 boot, diskless X11 Termi Message-ID: <200010312353.e9VNrt429318@mass.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 31 Oct 2000 23:50:24 %2B0100." <20001031235024.A25380@genesis.k.pl>
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> On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 01:37:32PM -0800, Mike Smith wrote:
> > > On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 10:26:12PM +0100, O. Hartmann wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, John Baldwin wrote:
> > > > All right, I saw I was false in using bootp ... :-(
> > >
> > > One question about diskless booting. How to boot FreeBSD > 4.0, with out
> > > /boot/loader to have properly libkvm working ?
> >
> > Typically you don't. Booting without the loader is discouraged.
>
> So how do I boot FreeBSD > 4 (nfs root,ne2000 ethernet adapter) with
> having libkvm work ?
Find a vendor supplying PXE-compliant bootroms for your network adapter,
or teach libstand how to talk to your existing bootrom in order to
support the loader on it.
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