From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Oct 31 15:50: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (adsl-63-202-178-14.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.202.178.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62B7337B479 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 15:50:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.11.1) with ESMTP id e9VNrt429318; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 15:53:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200010312353.e9VNrt429318@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Tomasz Paszkowski Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: diskless boot failures with PXE 2.0 boot, diskless X11 Termi In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 31 Oct 2000 23:50:24 +0100." <20001031235024.A25380@genesis.k.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 15:53:55 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message