Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 14:29:25 -0800 From: "John Fitzgibbon" <fitz@jfitz.com> To: <freebsd-net@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Etherboot 4.6.1 and FreeBSD 4.2 Release Message-ID: <001101c063c1$d2c46c60$040ca8c0@fitz>
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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" <fitz@jfitz.com> To: <freebsd-net@freebsd.org> 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
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