From owner-freebsd-small Sat Sep 22 15: 6:46 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from server.soekris.com (soekris.com [216.15.61.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77E1C37B406 for ; Sat, 22 Sep 2001 15:06:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from soekris.com (1.4.soekris.com [192.168.1.4] (may be forged)) by server.soekris.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id PAA47320; Sat, 22 Sep 2001 15:06:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from soren@soekris.com) Message-ID: <3BAD0B70.88C94D50@soekris.com> Date: Sat, 22 Sep 2001 15:06:40 -0700 From: Soren Kristensen Organization: Soekris Engineering X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chuck TheMascot Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel panic w/ Picobsd 4.4 & tftp boot References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi Chuck, Chuck TheMascot wrote: > > >Just my observations about PXE booting and FreeBSD: > > > >I first tried pxeboot using tftp, but also never got it to work with > >FreeBSD's tftp server. I then tried several win based tftp servers, and > >a couple of them worked just fine.... I eventually switched pxeboot to > >nfs, as the win tftp server that worked best cost $$$, and the demo was > >time limited. > > > >So it seems like that FreeBSD's tftp server and pxeboot works > >seperately, but don't like each other.... > > Interesting. It might be the retry timing, if the retry doesn't happen to > arrive at the wrong time things might just work. We you also getting a > kernel panic with the FreeBSD TFTP server ? I didn't get any panics on the server, the pxeboot just hang. But I was also using FreeBSD 4.1.... > I also have a Windoze based tftp server that I wrote, but I haven't tried it > yet. I'll give it a try and see what happens. > I would be interested in that windoze tftp server, especially if you could do an simple dhcp server too, and that you want to give it away :-) I'm looking for a way for people to be able to install software on my net4501 box using the PXE boot without having access to a unix box. Regards, Soren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message