Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 21:02:47 -0800 (PST) From: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@ambrisko.com> To: Dong Lin <dong@research.bell-labs.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: help: can't boot 5.0 diskless Message-ID: <200301290502.h0T52lDO078846@www.ambrisko.com> In-Reply-To: <200301231622.h0NGMhut011888@char.research.bell-labs.com>
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Dong Lin writes: | | Hi, I have been running etherboot/diskless machines successfully with | several 4.x releases. Now I have trouble bringing up 5.0 diskless x86 | machines. The same dhcp/nfs/etherboot setup works for 4.x. But the 5.0 | kernel freezes and eventually crashes without printing anything on the | console. I am pretty sure it has passed the etherboot stage, network | traces showed that init was loaded via NFS. If I replace the 5.0 | kernel with a 4.7 image, it simply works. | | Can someone tell me what different things I have to do in a diskless | 5.0 kernel? I do have the BOOTP, BOOTP_* and NFS_ROOT options enabled. | | Thanks for your help, Remember to compile in the hints into the 5.X kernel. The loader PXE/disk loaders do that for you but Etherboot doesn't. Doug A. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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