On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 10:26:28AM +0300, Danny Braniss wrote: > > > It seems there are some problems with using pxeboot in combination with > > > the network boot code from the etherboot project. I have tried many > > > combinations of options with no success. The result is very similar to > > > the following photo I found: > > > > > > http://photos.night-shade.org.uk/photo.php?photo=6364 > > > > > > I have tried it both on my local machine and in vmware with the same > > > result. It seems that somehow etherboot is not setting up the > > > environment the way pxeboot expects it too. Now the native pxe boot > > > code in vmware does load pxeboot correctly and I have successfully > > > booted freebsd in vmware, however I can't get the pxe boot code on my > > > network card to load at all, hence my need for etherboot. Also, both > > > pxeboot from FreeBSD 4.11 and 6.0-BETA2 crash the same way. I'm > > > assuming this is really a bug in etherboot, but I'm not sure how to get > > > a crash dump to play with. With vmware, it seems like I should be able > > > to save a memory image to examine, but I'm not sure how to do that. > > > Any ideas on a fix for this? > > > > Just my experience. I never handled to successfully pxeboot FreeBSD. > > pxeboot works fine! i have some 50 hosts pxeboot'ing that say so. > > it's etherboot loading pxeboot that does not work.
I do believe that the bugs in etherboot, and it should be fixed, but there may also be a workaround that could be added to pxeboot to make it work until etherboot is fixed. Now etherboot loading pxelinux has always worked find. pxelinux then uses the pxe environment to load it's configuration environment, plus your choice of a tagged kernel so it should have what it takes to load freebsd, even if it's not compliant with the spec. If I could just find a way to get a dump of the environment of etherboot+pxeboot, either using vmware or my pc, I think that would be the best clue as to the problem in etherboot. > > danny > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" > -- I sense much NT in you. NT leads to Bluescreen. Bluescreen leads to downtime. Downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the darkside. Powerful Unix is. Public Key: ftp://ftp.tallye.com/pub/lorenl_pubkey.asc Fingerprint: CEE1 AAE2 F66C 59B5 34CA C415 6D35 E847 0118 A3D2
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