Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2003 10:33:02 +0300 From: "Bigbrother" <bigbrother@bonbon.net> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Diskless Workstation Boot - kernel.diskless can't parse file... Message-ID: <012901c308a1$6b8ee6b0$e203a8c0@macedon> In-Reply-To: <3EA48E19.3050601@attbi.com>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: K Anderson [mailto:freebsduser@attbi.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 22, 2003 03:35
> To: nkinkade@fastmail.fm
> Cc: FreeBSD Questions
> Subject: Re: Diskless Workstation Boot - kernel.diskless
> can't parse file...
>
>
>
>
> Nathan Kinkade wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 02:12:05PM -0700, K Anderson wrote:
> >
> >>Greetings,
> >>
> >>I'm interested in checking out the diskless workstation
> stuff but I am
> >>finding the documentation sorely lacking.
> >>
> >>I have the dhcp server configured but I am at a point where the
> >>etherboot floppy connects, gets the assigned IP address and other
> >>information then gets stuck with the following error
> >>
> >>Loading 192.168.100.105:kernel.diskless can't parse file name
> >>kernel.diskless
> >>
> >>I think it might have to do with the tag kernel but the
> command to make
> >>the tagged kernel doesn't exist.
> >>
> >>So I'm looking for someone to lead me to the holly grail of
> diskless
> >>workstations so I can check it out.
> >>
> >>Really good instructions are greatly appreciated.
> >>
> >>I'm using Etherboot 5.0.8 from ports.
> >
> >
> > First, FreeBSD does not need a tagged kernel like Linux, so
> do not tag
> > or attempt to tag the kernel. What sort of path do you have to
> > kernel.diskless in your dhcpd.conf file? Are you using nfs or tftp?
> > I've got a diskless terminal going here with 4.8. I used
> nfs across the
> > board so that I don't have to enable tftpd, and thence inetd. Here
> > would be some useful information for me to know:
> > 1) your dhcpd.conf file
> > 2) options you selected when building your etherboot image
> > 3) nfs or tftpd
> >
> > I may not be able to help, even with these, but possibly I'll see
> > something??
> >
> > Nathan
>
> Ok, no tagged kernel. :) Thanks. Oh, I'm using a laptop, it has boot
> from NIC and it works, but the problem with that is it says img is to
> large for low memory. So that's why I went to etherboot.
>
> 1) here's the dhcp.conf lines (etherboot reports getting an IP):
> host bailey {
> hardware ethernet 00:0b:db:13:90:ab;
> fixed-address 192.168.100.200;
> next-server 192.168.100.105;
> filename "kernel.diskless";
> option root-path "192.168.100.105:/diskless_root";
> }
>
>
> 2) Options for etherboot? I just typed make in
> /usr/ports/net/etherboot
> without any options.
>
> 3) I used tftpd to get the kernel. tftpd is /tftpboot
> This I finally figured out when I kept getting file not found errors.
> hehehe. So I just tftp'd to the localhost and doh! it was right, file
> wasn't found. I had the wrong path all over the place.
>
> NETBOOT kernel is
> <...>
On my server for the diskless I have
inetd.conf:
<..>
tftp dgram udp wait root /usr/libexec/tftpd tftpd -s
/tftpboot
<..>
dhcpd.conf:
<..>
filename "/tftpboot/kernel";
<..>
exports:
<..>
/ -ro -alldirs -maproot=root: -network 192.168.168.0 -mask
255.255.255.0
<..>
Make sure that you also have along your lines, the previous lines!
Regardz,
BB
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