From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 28 20:30:28 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71246106567E for ; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:30:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tim1timau@yahoo.com) Received: from web50308.mail.re2.yahoo.com (web50308.mail.re2.yahoo.com [206.190.38.62]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E67AA8FC26 for ; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:30:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from tim1timau@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 78189 invoked by uid 60001); 28 Feb 2008 20:30:27 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding:Message-ID; b=sPrw3ZFsrDhvYquFLqOh0li6LQzrJAyf/fKZehLRZZoouDK/acTuD0w0WNfkQoC1QIkoYrIgoQo8ornTwwYqVCgDVEQxq4RtftfpyniBxsE2LsiUOJscA3fxkCkkrH3+oueiJsFBAq0lxqpXA/TYL8GFuvfDxIDolY8WDmj2lj4=; X-YMail-OSG: eFwWv_sVM1mKnPkxYlfg6_QzHkaPa0vlhwKkweYpM4i1mVw1uSZh_7wfkUekvFaGCfSxK.vchei8I3kl9qG7yOsYnD0sTcNBZas5uqOSm4B5QzwDehEAsaKGkyvQJ399kJpJRktEbbZQphk- Received: from [210.215.149.194] by web50308.mail.re2.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:30:26 PST Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 12:30:26 -0800 (PST) From: Tim Clewlow To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: <114098.31819.qm@web50308.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Cc: Subject: PXE on 7.0 problem and solution X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 20:30:28 -0000 Hi there, Installing 7.0 via PXE has a slight problem that is easily worked around. The file /boot/mfsroot.gz on the installation media needs to be unzipped to make PXE boot via tftp/nfs work. Otherwise the loader ultimately complains that it cant find the device to boot from. For example, if you have the installation media living at /usr/pxe/nfs/ on the PXE server, then do: gzip -d /usr/pxe/nfs/boot/mfsroot.gz After doing this it now loads the kernel and starts the installation procedure as expected. Someone more knowledgeable than me might want to let whoever needs to know about this. Apart from that, it looks great, the work is appreciated, thanks for the new release :-) Cheers, Tim. We are BSD ... resistance is futile. http://www.freebsd.org/ - http://www.openbsd.org/ - http://www.netbsd.org/ ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping