Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 08:55:45 +0300 From: Daniel Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> To: Lawrence Stewart <lstewart@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NFS mount RPC error when loading kernel after PXE boot Message-ID: <E1O70FN-000IUq-BT@kabab.cs.huji.ac.il> In-Reply-To: <4BD79938.4050507@freebsd.org> 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> <4BD79938.4050507@freebsd.org>
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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? FreeBSD sf-01 8.0-STABLE FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE #35 r2087: Fri Apr 16 09:53:12 IDT 2010 amd64 CPU: Dual-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2218 (2613.41-MHz K8-class CPU) > > - 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? the only {ir}relevant stuff: BOOT_COMCONSOLE_SPEED?=115200 > > - Can you please put your pxeboot binary somewhere for me to download > and try? done: ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/users/danny/freebsd/pxeboot-8.0 actually I lied, it's not too vanilla, it has some changes I made and forgot about them :-) > > Cheers, > Lawrence hth, danny
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