From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 22 00:22:12 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A3591065676 for ; Sat, 22 Sep 2012 00:22:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from btillman99@yahoo.com) Received: from nm9-vm3.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com (nm9-vm3.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com [98.138.91.139]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0BAE18FC0C for ; Sat, 22 Sep 2012 00:22:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [98.138.90.57] by nm9.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 22 Sep 2012 00:22:04 -0000 Received: from [98.138.89.240] by tm10.bullet.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 22 Sep 2012 00:22:04 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] by omp1013.mail.ne1.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 22 Sep 2012 00:22:04 -0000 X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 884830.55377.bm@omp1013.mail.ne1.yahoo.com Received: (qmail 74835 invoked by uid 60001); 22 Sep 2012 00:22:04 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yahoo.com; s=s1024; t=1348273324; bh=SxKDHAF4oV9Zk8GNmqNrn0DI+qL8sBmnDTI1hD1z6yg=; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:References:Message-ID:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=HCH+0lkCvFKIgIQAX1Ioxsip6js7Fvfj/CCxonk5NhKgRSMDgQkFHCoCYg/YRNRtH7wxDJO7nxtTwDv2jsiEPX0cRDc7PSA24E7YxxWOrp0S27F8hBQHxDZEVZ38tOQJNJoFoZ8JH9SIBq+IUjj+bdP75Xho7bbH/qtDaLGPB9Y= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:References:Message-ID:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=PrYRpMRICS7JVREmiHj3zA/Obn/BVdn7iXD/EHoRw8CB6vlwNPvzsMzStjoaDomN3/lTUWPIlbJJo/OPzcx52FeAnl51ms/w2jQn3X+Uzl8sgp3rpTtJloHL+Fq6za9LJbK5tK+dTSA8XM1NFzVO9sabiVQ13AFlO9LMEW3yCOs=; X-YMail-OSG: pLjP4rUVM1kRR23kjWj6XT0Kjs65Pu_mKSKi.jUiguXbPQj u7YTZnTR9VQ9rfdUAgJPWmQmtWQ5qzayahbVz18AoAEy6Yi5fsek2YYfNG49 jY5KlTAQBcu363yFB75eZs2CecAPviaJmLXnnRPPX.1ZZ85WzTdlWXRWsebl kwuAWHFCku5V57xA8fcYVc4Q0xifh6jQnw9YTBuIdZN6dr9mPMZjl.fYo.In 2byXLrnTQWrte5ya3MqGs.8kHHeYKj3DyXF78uQpHe0GeHeZxx7lq1.0fhX7 G5RF8eQLw7g9xFwKp_ZAV8zUWCJRU3qHfPibME3RU8SS6EaO139eoQdAoebV LXVCNOnjEZVB_1Wu_hQd99cr4nA5AcXgGu4D5.es39PIdOQeuxrKzbJ11Wb3 6n.lFWlevP4G05HQ9oxqNJ484B3wgaN09ehzguQRtYexcKVdY6yxpncynnxU HWkkx0vQUJBuhIFG_ktgpGCryHfyIclwZzQRI8s.A0HeRIXgXQE5yCkES7ot nLMW2_ZOuxSQa1r4DYDp13mu8GRt1jMem2UqTcOuDYROsQsqQZpxSByCYXcw WdCP1jAOZ.FZr_mYTJijN5ouu7XOHIuUxJo8WLCuY Received: from [98.203.44.66] by web120804.mail.ne1.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 21 Sep 2012 17:22:04 PDT X-Mailer: YahooMailWebService/0.8.121.416 References: <1348101748.73587.YahooMailNeo@web120801.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> <505ACF05.8010108@caspersworld.co.uk> Message-ID: <1348273324.74412.YahooMailNeo@web120804.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 17:22:04 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Tillman To: Paul Wootton In-Reply-To: <505ACF05.8010108@caspersworld.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Anyone Tried to use iPXE to boot with iSCSI? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Bill Tillman List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2012 00:22:12 -0000 =0A=0A----- Original Message -----=0AFrom: Paul Wootton =0ATo: Bill Tillman =0ACc: =0ASent: Thursday,= September 20, 2012 4:08 AM=0ASubject: Re: Anyone Tried to use iPXE to boot= with iSCSI?=0A=0AOn 09/20/12 01:42, Bill Tillman wrote:=0A> Interesting pr= oject you've got there. I can't say mine is similar but I do have a machine= which I'm using as a router which boots disklessly. Running 8.3-STABLE amd= 64, in fact I just rebuilt the world on both the server which serves this p= uppy it's OS and the /diskless partition where this puppy get's it's boot u= p from. Booting by pxe is not an easy thing to do. The docs are terrible an= d out of synch with the latest versions of the OS. I think there may have b= een some improvments on that end but it's still kind of a seat of the pants= operation. I had several contacts in #FreeBSD on FreeNode who told me they= had many diskless servers running yet when pressed for how they did it the= answers they gave were vague and ambiguous, that is if they answered at al= l. I did finally find a site which explained most of it in an almost clear = manner, but even that site was filled with typos and out of date informatio= n. The router I've built is great...no disks at all=0A>=A0 and until the r= eboot a few weeks ago it had been running 24/7 for 276 days...without one f= ailure. We watch lots of NetFlix movies here, sometimes two or three at a t= ime with my teenage kids here with their laptops. And I can still enjoy a q= uick download or two in my lab while all this bandwidth is being served.=0A= > _______________________________________________=0A> freebsd-questions@fre= ebsd.org mailing list=0A> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd= -questions=0A> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr= ibe@freebsd.org"=0A=0AHi Bil,,=0A=0AI am actually looking at doing somethin= g very similar with my soekris box. Currently it boots from a CF card, but = the card is getting old and I think it is coming to the end of it's life.= =0A=0ACan you please shed a little light on what you did?=0A=0A=0ACheers=0A= Paul=0A=0A=0A=0AThis is the website where I found the best and most accurat= e information on diskless booting. =0A=0Ahttp://www.nber.org/sys-admin/Free= BSD-diskless.html=0A=0AThe authors appear to have updated this just a=A0few= months ago as well. I had=A0trouble with it until I understood what the=A0= conf/=A0folders were all about. It's easy for a novice to read this and get= confused because the authors assume the reader knows as much about it as t= hey do or they are=A0just lazy hacks like me and don't want to type all the= real meat of the setup. I=A0wrote an e-mail to them and explained several = typos they=A0had in their article in 2010 when I first found this article. = The guy who replied back was=A0very=A0cool and he thanked me for helping wi= th some of the corrections. I read lots of other stuff, including the FreeB= SD handbook but as usual it was=A0not in synch with the newest releases and= I couldn't get it working. I'm=A0happy=A0to say that now I have a wonderfu= l=A0diskless setup which I can update when I want to....I don't think I'm g= oing to go past=A08.3-STABLE with it. The new 9.x-RELEASE uses a new=A0driv= e format which has=A0created problems=A0for me with the older=A0equipment I have around here. I'm final= ly throwing out most of the old stuff I've had for years around here. Just = built two new Windows 7 workstations with i7 Quad cores and 16 GB RAM.=A0Th= ese older servers are still working fine for me and I plan on using them un= til they drop.