Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 08:49:15 +0300 From: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> To: Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 6.2-PRERELEASE/amd64 boot kernel.gz failes Message-ID: <E1GSoln-000J6h-5e@cs1.cs.huji.ac.il> In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 27 Sep 2006 14:29:28 -0700 .
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> Danny Braniss wrote: > > originally posted to amd64@freebsd.org: > > > > Hi, > > While trying to figure out why boot/pxeboot failes on some > > kernels/hosts, I think i've come up with one solid nogo, > > if the kernel is gzipped it always fails. > > Can someone confirm this? or am i suffering from some > > local problem? > > I believe I've seen this before when booting i386 kernels from soekris > boards. I've taken to using pxeboot to load netboot and then use > netboot to load a kernel as the netboot drivers are way faster (for > soekris at least). Hopping through netboot also lets you have a menu to > select one of several kernels to load. > > Sam > I'll check this asap, btw, does netboot use pxe too? danny
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