From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Apr 28 05:55:47 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 39CD7106566B; Wed, 28 Apr 2010 05:55:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from danny@cs.huji.ac.il) Received: from kabab.cs.huji.ac.il (kabab.cs.huji.ac.il [132.65.16.84]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA6648FC0C; Wed, 28 Apr 2010 05:55:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pampa.cs.huji.ac.il ([132.65.80.32]) by kabab.cs.huji.ac.il with esmtp id 1O70FN-000IUq-BT; Wed, 28 Apr 2010 08:55:45 +0300 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.7.2 01/07/2005 with nmh-1.2 To: Lawrence Stewart In-reply-to: <4BD79938.4050507@freebsd.org> References: <4BD3EBE1.8030701@freebsd.org> <4BD437AB.8060103@freebsd.org> <4BD45CAD.1050102@freebsd.org> <4BD542FE.2090805@freebsd.org> <4BD79938.4050507@freebsd.org> Comments: In-reply-to Lawrence Stewart message dated "Wed, 28 Apr 2010 12:11:04 +1000." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2010 08:55:45 +0300 From: Daniel Braniss Message-ID: 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 05:55:47 -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? 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