Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 18:23:55 -0800 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: hackers@freebsd.org Cc: wpaul@freebsd.org Subject: problems PXE booting with 3C996B-T Message-ID: <20020318182352.A6013@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
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--tKW2IUtsqtDRztdT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi, I'm trying to PXE boot a cluster of machines using 3Com 3C996B-T gigabit Ethernet NICs and appear to be running into driver problems specific to PXE booting. Here's what I know: - The system boots just fine off of an Intel card with PXE support. - The 3Com NIC basicly works (some phy issues remain) if you boot via normal methods (I did an FTP install of todays -stable snapshot off of a floppy to verify this.) - When booting with the 3Com NIC, the kernel loads correctly, but the does not proceed beyond: Mounting root from nfs: NFS ROOT: XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:/nfsroot Running tcpdump on the nfs host seems to indicate that the system is attempting to do an NFS lookup on sbin on it's way to running /sbin/init. The responses appear to be sent correctly, but printfs added around the call to ether_input indicate that they never make it out of the card. ARP responses do appear to arrive properly as do pings. Does anyone have any suggestions with regard to debugging this problem? Thanks, Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --tKW2IUtsqtDRztdT Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8lqE3XY6L6fI4GtQRAh/5AKC+YJQQfO4uVVOnaJj+If84XBJwVwCfSQXD aKSQWjXXWhrCWf5E3L+e0jY= =IAqB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --tKW2IUtsqtDRztdT-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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