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Date:      Sun, 25 Apr 2010 16:28:58 +0300
From:      Daniel Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>
To:        Lawrence Stewart <lstewart@freebsd.org>
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:  <E1O61tK-0005Se-G6@kabab.cs.huji.ac.il>
In-Reply-To: <4BD437AB.8060103@freebsd.org> 
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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.

i'll refrase question:
	can you pxe boot a diskless client via nfs?

the 'above' just says that you can nfs access, which was not my question.

danny






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