From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 28 02:11:07 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9187B106564A for ; Wed, 28 Apr 2010 02:11:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lstewart@freebsd.org) Received: from lauren.room52.net (lauren.room52.net [210.50.193.198]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5090A8FC1C for ; Wed, 28 Apr 2010 02:11:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lawrence1.loshell.room52.net (unknown [59.167.184.191]) by lauren.room52.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id EA75B7E853; Wed, 28 Apr 2010 12:11:04 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <4BD79938.4050507@freebsd.org> Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 12:11:04 +1000 From: Lawrence Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-AU; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100405 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Braniss References: <4BD3EBE1.8030701@freebsd.org> <4BD437AB.8060103@freebsd.org> <4BD45CAD.1050102@freebsd.org> <4BD542FE.2090805@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NFS mount RPC error when loading kernel after PXE boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 02:11:07 -0000 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