On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 12:30:26PM -0800, Tim Clewlow wrote: > Hi there, > > Installing 7.0 via PXE has a slight problem that is easily worked around. The > file /boot/mfsroot.gz on the installation media needs to be unzipped to make > PXE boot via tftp/nfs work. Otherwise the loader ultimately complains that it > cant find the device to boot from. For example, if you have the installation > media living at /usr/pxe/nfs/ on the PXE server, then do:
I documented this in my "how to get FreeBSD to install via PXE and serial console" document: http://jdc.parodius.com/freebsd/pxeboot_serial_install.html I opened a PR at the time of this discovery as well: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/120127 -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB | _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
