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Date:      Wed, 05 Jul 2000 19:42:41 -0500
From:      Alan Edmonds <aedmonds@digitalconvergence.com>
To:        Paul Saab <paul@mu.org>
Cc:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, Bill Fumerola <billf@chimesnet.com>, ps@freebsd.org, stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [jhb@FreeBSD.org: Re: [aedmonds@digitalconvergence.com: Re: pxeboot  problems with 4.0-stable]]
Message-ID:  <3963D601.46A51C0A@digitalconvergence.com>
References:  <20000705170516.L4034@jade.chc-chimes.com> <3963A776.8AB99AC7@digitalconvergence.com> <3963B7D7.1DC5F5C5@FreeBSD.org> <3963D07D.4D13B9B9@digitalconvergence.com> <20000705172602.A26402@elvis.mu.org>

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Paul Saab wrote:
> 
> Alan Edmonds (aedmonds@digitalconvergence.com) wrote:
> > Good (maybe) news.
> >
> > WIth Paul Saab's help, I loaded a new version of the PXE ROM
> > code into the adapter.  I loaded PXE 2.0 build 082.
> >
> > It now successfully loads the kernel.  Here's the new
> > problem.  After the kernel loads, I get
> >
> > pxe_netif: probe failed 0x60
> > netboot: couldn't probe pxenet0
> 
> Ok.. This was fixed in -current, but I forgot to MFC it.. :P

Maybe.  I'm using picobsd if that matters.

> > Then kernel then initializes, but fails to mount the root fs.
> 
> You need to specify where the root filesystem is in your loader.rc
> set vfs.root.mountfrom="ufs:/dev/da0s1a"

Another oopsy on my part.  I took out the 

load -t mfs_root fs.PICOBSD

in the loader.rc file.  I put it back in and
it works!  I still get the probe failure, 
but it works!

I'm going to copy this to stable for the archives.

Thanks for the help.
-- 
Alan Edmonds      Director of International Technology
DigitalConvergence.:Com
aedmonds@digitalconvergence.com
Phone: +1-214-292-6040


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