From owner-freebsd-net Mon Dec 11 14:29:54 2000 From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 11 14:29:52 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from shell6.ba.best.com (shell6.ba.best.com [206.184.139.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0541037B400 for ; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 14:29:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from fitz (root@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by shell6.ba.best.com (8.9.3/8.9.2/best.sh) with SMTP id OAA05107 for ; Mon, 11 Dec 2000 14:29:19 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <001101c063c1$d2c46c60$040ca8c0@fitz> From: "John Fitzgibbon" To: Subject: Re: Etherboot 4.6.1 and FreeBSD 4.2 Release Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 14:29:25 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4133.2400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org For the benefit of fellow-sufferers: I figured it out. It was a plain old DOS problem rather than Etherboot/FreeBSD. I took the following lines out of my boot floppy's config.sys: device=himem.sys /testmem:off dos=high,umb stacks=9,256 ... and the kernel boots fine. Now I just need to get my conf files sorted.... ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Fitzgibbon" To: Sent: Sunday, December 10, 2000 7:11 PM Subject: Etherboot 4.6.1 and FreeBSD 4.2 Release > Anyone know if this combination works? > > I'm trying to use Etherboot 4.6.1's ne.com, (vanilla compile from the ports > collection), to diskless boot a 4.2 Release kernel. > > On the client, ne.com recognizes the kernel as FreeBSD/ELF and loads it from > the server. However, on switching to the kernel I immediately get the > following: > > Fatal trap 12: page fault while in vm86 mode... > fault code = user read, page not present... > panic page fault > > ... and I'm hosed. > > The kernel is compiled with the BOOTP options, (but it looks like its not > even loaded properly). > > Any suggestions/alternatives would be appreciated. > Cheers. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message