Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 15:56:53 -0700 From: "Mike Sweetser - Adhost" <mikesw@adhost.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Problems with USB drive booting, installing over NFS mount Message-ID: <17838240D9A5544AAA5FF95F8D52031602170C4D@ad-exh01.adhost.lan>
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I've been trying to get a server installed with FreeBSD 6.1 from either a USB CD or floppy, or an NFS mount for nearly a week, with no luck. (The server has no CD-ROM drive or floppy drive, and is SATA-only). When trying to boot from the FreeBSD install CD from a USB CD-ROM drive, or when booting from a boot floppy from a USB floppy drive, at the very start of booting, it starts scrolling a hexadecimal dump, and becomes unresponsive. I've set up a basic FreeBSD server install as a PXE/TFTP/NFS server and have the server booting off that into FreeBSD, but whenever I run sysinstall, I get as far as it extracting the distribution. At the first area, once it gets to 7%, it always errors out, saying that it's lost connection to the NFS mount. It never reestablished the connection and hangs there. Any ideas of anything I can do? This is really getting frustrating. Mike Sweetser -------------------------- Mike Sweetser | Systems Administrator Adhost Internet 140 Fourth Avenue North, Suite 360, Seattle, Washington 98109 USA P 206.404.9000 T 888.234.6781 (ADHOST-1) F 206.404.9050 E mikesw@adhost.com W adhost.com Our brand new Adhost West data center is open - contact us for a tour at 1-888-234-6781 (ADHOST-1)
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