From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 4 20:04:31 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E3321065671 for ; Tue, 4 Mar 2008 20:04:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from new2xen@gmail.com) Received: from ti-out-0910.google.com (ti-out-0910.google.com [209.85.142.188]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C50C78FC12 for ; Tue, 4 Mar 2008 20:04:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from new2xen@gmail.com) Received: by ti-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id j2so1345342tid.3 for ; Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:04:29 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; bh=LTonbHm1dG7W5ZFWf3a3KYfNFjO3OAduOw6vVIZXtK8=; b=P7a2Z+oDxrWfcUynenS4DUQe5lrgjip89qZmxwo5qOaNKhvSJBhZzCcs/ZoiuawfXVjCkF6wG5QwfunguB9Wsn66v+1+jfOR64LkOlQFUbW/lPeWRy7FYrYVBeiju/KWR//DIEGLPlnNfbRO/IdQ0+OGIgu4V9DKWqr9BZ0Cpd4= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=Y3hheXskUTZ9nDYR+DH6OpRclgaQSb3Bg7eq53Qi7pUdkwnJKbVEbJQo/wwyr28Rkp34Vni2gtliPsIhkq/YxkcxcNQOSKUcU6qJJOLiiH5cHwPaWZJEca6qPn8ITj5FQGArqPSAtVIU0DXsrc108a1Y56uIdZ+v9QfoG8x2ewA= Received: by 10.150.139.15 with SMTP id m15mr734484ybd.99.1204661067444; Tue, 04 Mar 2008 12:04:27 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.150.57.15 with HTTP; Tue, 4 Mar 2008 12:04:27 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <13d67a800803041204uf07bbb3h1bdb77f0a2de8637@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2008 12:04:27 -0800 From: "vincenzo romero" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, "Erik Cederstrand" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Cc: Subject: Solved: FreeBSD diskless workstation boot over Linux PXE server X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 20:04:31 -0000 Hello Erik and all, thank you for all the help; all my issues are resolved, mostly stemming from silly misconfigurations and typos: 1. rc.conf file is missing - was caused by a typo - missing "#" from a comment line that began with the string "rc.conf". 2. i had some getty errors - bec. my /usr directory was not completely "tar'ed or cpio'ed" into my NFS root export. When I have iron'ed out and ensured that I followed Erik's instructions below: http://www.locolomo.org/pub/pxeboot/diskless.html I was fine. thanks again. - V. On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 2:10 AM, Erik Cederstrand wrote: > > vincenzo romero wrote: > > Thank you for the input from a couple of folks. After a few research > > and readings I am able to boot off a diskless client; and have a > > little error encountered. To clarify the environment: > > > > 1. PXE/DHCP/NFS/TFTP servers is a linux host > > 2. DHCP - server - dhcpd.conf file shows the following: (for my > > freeBSD diskless client testing scenario) > > > > filename "pxeboot"; > > next-server 192.168.16.5; > > option root-path "192.168.16.5:/export/images/freeBSD"; > > > > -- pxeboot is the freeBSD /boot/pxeboot file I copied over to my > > /tftpboot directory. > > -- next server IP is the PXE/TFTPD/DHCP server ... > > -- the NFS root is exported by the NFS server as such. > > > > .... The client seems to boot properly - acquires an IP address; > > downloads and reads the /tftpboot/pxeboot file; .... a message also > > appears that indicates it mounted the root File system: (snippet of > > console messages:) > > > > NFS ROOT: 192.168.16.5:/export/images/freeBSD > > nfe0: link state change to UP > > Interface nfe0 IP_Address 192.168.16.5 ... . . . . .. > > Loading Configuration files. > > rc.conf: not found > > No Suitable dump device was found . > > | > > etc. > > etc. > > Did you modify rc.conf, fstab and resolv.conf as described in > http://www.locolomo.org/pub/pxeboot/diskless.html? And what's hiding > behind "etc. etc."? > > Erik > -- best, Vince