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Date:      Sun, 25 Apr 2010 22:38:03 +1000
From:      Lawrence Stewart <lstewart@freebsd.org>
To:        Daniel Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>
Cc:        freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: NFS mount RPC error when loading kernel after PXE boot(was "Re: Vbox/PXE booting works (fwd)")
Message-ID:  <4BD437AB.8060103@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <E1O60BQ-0004Ua-UJ@kabab.cs.huji.ac.il>
References:  <E1O1FeU-000Lfe-C4@kabab.cs.huji.ac.il> <4BD3EBE1.8030701@freebsd.org> <E1O60BQ-0004Ua-UJ@kabab.cs.huji.ac.il>

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Hi Danny,

On 04/25/10 21:39, Daniel Braniss wrote:
>> Hi Danny and all,

[snip]

>> mount the NFS share to pull the kernel from. I've verified that the NFS
>> configuration works, both using a separate physical machine and by
>> firing up the VM I'm trying to PXE boot with the fixit CD and mounting
>> the share from the fixit shell i.e. the problem seems to be localised to
>> the boot loader.

[snip]

> have you tried your pxe/diskless outside vmware?

Yes, see above. The NFS configuration works perfectly when used inside a 
vm running FreeBSD or from a physical machine. It only fails when I try 
to PXE boot the vm.

Cheers,
Lawrence



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