Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 12:34:38 +0300 From: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Oleg Bulyzhin <oleg@freebsd.org>, Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru> Subject: Re: pxeboot with amd64 vs i386 Message-ID: <E1Fgety-0003Pu-Tl@cs1.cs.huji.ac.il> In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 17 May 2006 18:11:50 %2B0100 (BST) .
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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 I had similar experience, i recompiled a fresh pxeboot, and it's ok now. danny
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