Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 19:48:20 -0800 (PST) From: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@whistle.com> To: John Fitzgibbon <fitz@jfitz.com> Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Etherboot 4.6.1 and FreeBSD 4.2 Release Message-ID: <200012120348.TAA24198@whistle.com> In-Reply-To: <001101c063c1$d2c46c60$040ca8c0@fitz> from John Fitzgibbon at "Dec 11, 2000 02:29:25 pm"
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John Fitzgibbon writes: | For the benefit of fellow-sufferers: | | I figured it out. It was a plain old DOS problem rather than | Etherboot/FreeBSD. | | I took the following lines out of my boot floppy's config.sys: | | device=himem.sys /testmem:off | dos=high,umb | stacks=9,256 | | ... and the kernel boots fine. | | Now I just need to get my conf files sorted.... | | ----- Original Message ----- | From: "John Fitzgibbon" <fitz@jfitz.com> | | > Anyone know if this combination works? | > | > I'm trying to use Etherboot 4.6.1's ne.com, (vanilla compile from the | ports | > collection), to diskless boot a 4.2 Release kernel. | > | > On the client, ne.com recognizes the kernel as FreeBSD/ELF and loads it | from | > the server. However, on switching to the kernel I immediately get the | > following: | > | > Fatal trap 12: page fault while in vm86 mode... | > fault code = user read, page not present... | > panic page fault | > | > ... and I'm hosed. | > | > The kernel is compiled with the BOOTP options, (but it looks like its not | > even loaded properly). | > | > Any suggestions/alternatives would be appreciated. FYI, you can make a bootable floppy without the need for DOS via cd in work/etherboot/src and type gmake bin32/<device type>.fd0 That's what I usually do. Doug A. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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