From owner-freebsd-net Mon Feb 5 10: 0:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from aifhs8.alcatel.fr (aifhs8.alcatel.fr [212.208.74.153]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FCED37B491 for ; Mon, 5 Feb 2001 10:00:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from frmta003.netfr.alcatel.fr (frmta003.netfr.alcatel.fr [155.132.251.32]) by aifhs8.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP2) with SMTP id TAA11164 for ; Mon, 5 Feb 2001 19:00:40 +0100 (MET) Received: by frmta003.netfr.alcatel.fr(Lotus SMTP MTA v4.6.7 (934.1 12-30-1999)) id C12569EA.0062EB3B ; Mon, 5 Feb 2001 19:00:27 +0100 X-Lotus-FromDomain: ALCATEL From: Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Message-ID: Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 19:00:24 +0100 Subject: diskless boot of a PXE-compatible machine : finally done ! Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello, this a simili victory report : the PC now boots via PXE (this is a Motorola rack-mount PC, with a no-thrills BX motherboard and an fxp NIC, with a strictly 4.2-Release installation) the rc.diskless2 must be wrong (I've not yet checked with -Stable), as it tries to chmod, chgrp and find in /var before mounting /usr (this must be a chicken-and-egg question, as a forced /usr mount in the beginning of rc.diskless2 gives an error message about /var/db/mounttab not being there) in the limited tests I have done, I have not been able to start the machine with a strict bootp setup : the PXE ROM says there are no answers if I force the dhcpd as a BOOTP server (I want to control the correspondance between the MAC and IP addresses) the PXE boot rom is a 2.0 release, compile number 68 (is there any more stable or better version ?) TfH To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message