Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 07:31:50 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: =?iso-8859-1?q?Paul=20Jansen?= <vlaero@yahoo.com.au> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: pxe booting problem Message-ID: <XFMail.011030073150.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20011030143039.28447.qmail@web12901.mail.yahoo.com>
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On 30-Oct-01 Paul Jansen wrote: > I posted some of this info last friday but haven't had > any responses. I'm hoping someone out there knows > what the problem is. Here's the details: > > I saw Alfred Perlsteins page on how to setup > FreeBSD installs unsing PXE. > The problem I'm having now is when I follow Alfred's > directions to create the PXE loader (using 4.4R) It > bombs out. It's my understanding the I just need to > stick 'pxeldr' into the root of the TFTP server > directory and tell the machine to execute this by > specifying it as the boot file in the DHCP > configuration. I also understand that I have to > create a subdirectory called 'boot' under the TFTP > root directory with the file 'loader.rc' in it. Can > someone verify if this is the case? > Alfred's instructions can be found here: > http://people.freebsd.org/~alfred/pxe/ > > This is the console output that insues when I try and > build pxeldr as per Alfred's instructions: You need pxeboot (not pxeldr, pxeldr is part of pxeboot). Do you have the sources for libstand (src/lib/libstand) installed? -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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