Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 21:51:13 +0100 From: Erik Cederstrand <erik@cederstrand.dk> To: Tim Clewlow <tim1timau@yahoo.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PXE on 7.0 problem and solution Message-ID: <47C71EC1.3010500@cederstrand.dk> In-Reply-To: <114098.31819.qm@web50308.mail.re2.yahoo.com> References: <114098.31819.qm@web50308.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
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Tim Clewlow wrote: > Hi there, > > Installing 7.0 via PXE has a slight problem that is easily worked around. The > file /boot/mfsroot.gz on the installation media needs to be unzipped to make > PXE boot via tftp/nfs work. Otherwise the loader ultimately complains that it > cant find the device to boot from. For example, if you have the installation > media living at /usr/pxe/nfs/ on the PXE server, then do: > > gzip -d /usr/pxe/nfs/boot/mfsroot.gz > > After doing this it now loads the kernel and starts the installation procedure > as expected. Someone more knowledgeable than me might want to let whoever needs > to know about this. > > Apart from that, it looks great, the work is appreciated, thanks for the new > release :-) I've had problems with other files fetched over NFS in the past. In theory (at least that's what a tcpdump says), it should be possible to provide all files gzipped, and even split the files in smaller chunks. Files are tried in this order: boot/loader.rc.split boot/loader.rc.gz.split boot/loader.rc.gz boot/loader.rc However, I only got the plain files to work reliably. Erik
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