Dong Lin writes: | | Hi, I have been running etherboot/diskless machines successfully with | several 4.x releases. Now I have trouble bringing up 5.0 diskless x86 | machines. The same dhcp/nfs/etherboot setup works for 4.x. But the 5.0 | kernel freezes and eventually crashes without printing anything on the | console. I am pretty sure it has passed the etherboot stage, network | traces showed that init was loaded via NFS. If I replace the 5.0 | kernel with a 4.7 image, it simply works. | | Can someone tell me what different things I have to do in a diskless | 5.0 kernel? I do have the BOOTP, BOOTP_* and NFS_ROOT options enabled. | | Thanks for your help,
Remember to compile in the hints into the 5.X kernel. The loader PXE/disk loaders do that for you but Etherboot doesn't. Doug A. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
