Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 12:11:04 +1000 From: Lawrence Stewart <lstewart@freebsd.org> To: Daniel Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NFS mount RPC error when loading kernel after PXE boot Message-ID: <4BD79938.4050507@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <E1O6ND6-000IhC-Ub@kabab.cs.huji.ac.il> References: <E1O1FeU-000Lfe-C4@kabab.cs.huji.ac.il> <4BD3EBE1.8030701@freebsd.org> <E1O60BQ-0004Ua-UJ@kabab.cs.huji.ac.il> <4BD437AB.8060103@freebsd.org> <E1O61tK-0005Se-G6@kabab.cs.huji.ac.il> <4BD45CAD.1050102@freebsd.org> <E1O67dY-0008lm-7d@kabab.cs.huji.ac.il> <4BD542FE.2090805@freebsd.org> <E1O6ND6-000IhC-Ub@kabab.cs.huji.ac.il>
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On 04/26/10 22:14, Daniel Braniss wrote: > ... >> Ok thanks. It would be funny if you can no longer successfully pxeboot >> either :D > > it's virtualbox that was no longer running ok :-(, so after spending > time compiling qt4, I managed to compile vbox so now I have: > 3.1.6_OSEr59338 I just updated my ports tree and I'm now running virtualbox-ose-3.1.6_3. My problems persist. [snip] > I'm running vanilla pxeboot, my etherboot rom is not mine, I just compiled it > under linux (under freebsd it was imposible to compile). > Since the server is diskless, but has a few nics, I'm using a spare one for > vbox. > > BTW, the 'sometime works' is now 'sometimes failes'! before, after the first > reboot, > the kernel would panic, the next reboot would hang. Now, reboot mostly > succeeds :-) > > attaching a console boot, > HTH, > danny You're definitely doing something different with your pxeboot compared to me. Take a look at the following screenshot of my vbox trying to pxeboot and compare to yours: http://loshell.room52.net/~lstewart/brokenvboxpxe.png vs ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/users/danny/freebsd/v1.jpeg A lot of the text after the "Starting the BTX loader" line is different in my case to yours. The pxeboot I'm currently using is from today's 8-STABLE, which I built by doing a "make buildworld buildkernel" and then copying the /usr/obj/.../sys/boot/i386/pxeldr/pxeboot binary to my tftp root dir. Questions: - What version of FreeBSD and arch (i386 or amd64) are you running on the underlying vbox host? - Can you please check your /etc/make.conf and /etc/src.conf for any changes that might affect how the pxeboot binary gets built on your build machine? - Can you please put your pxeboot binary somewhere for me to download and try? Cheers, Lawrence
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