Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 15:24:13 +0300 From: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> To: "Morgan Reed" <morgan.s.reed@gmail.com> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PXE booting issues Message-ID: <E1I2R8X-0009D6-6s@cs1.cs.huji.ac.il> In-Reply-To: <b024b3480706240427k2433f709me6c8b770a1d46cc@mail.gmail.com> References: <b024b3480706240427k2433f709me6c8b770a1d46cc@mail.gmail.com>
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> I'm currently working on an embedded project which will be built > around a BSD (I'm not sure which yet), currently I have an image up > and running DragonFly and I'm currently attempting to do the same with > FreeBSD for comparison. > > I'm more or less following the miniBSD tutorials (updating the various > file lists and such as I go). > > The system is being built around 6.2-STABLE but I'm having some issues > getting it to PXE boot. > > On my FreeBSD host I've enabled TFTP, exported the rootfs for the > system via NFS, built and installed isc-dhcpd and configured it with > the extra options for PXE booting. > > The client currently gets its IP address from the server successfully, > retrieves and loads pxeboot but when it comes to launch the kernel it > eventually throws an NFS timeout. > > I know the export is working because I used NFS to pull the rootfs > over to my DragonFly boot host to see what the result was when I > booted the same image from a known working boot host (it worked > correctly until it hit a problem in the image I will detail in a > separate message). > > I did attempt to rebuild the pxeboot loader, following the standard > instructions; > set LOADER_TFTP_SUPPORT=YES in /etc/make.conf > cd /usr/src/sys/boot > make clean && make depend && make > > It appears to be successful (and the output would support this) but > the i386/pxeldr/pxeboot and i386/loader/loader files do not exist, my > only guess is that I've not set a make variable I should have, the > most confusing part is that the dd command which is the final step in > generating pxeboot appears in the output and appears to be successful; > ============== > dd if=pxeboot.tmp of=pxeboot obs=2k conv=osync > 425+0 records in > 107+0 records out > ============== > The discrepancy in the records in and the records out is concerning > but I would expect the file to exist regardless, I'm currently using > the default /boot/pxeboot. > > Any suggestions as to what might be causing this would be greatly appreciated. 1- try sniffing (wireshark, not the kind that will get you high :-) and see where it hangs. 2- the dhcp should tell pxeloader where the root is: option root-path "ip....:/path" danny
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