On Wed, 17 May 2006, Robert Watson wrote: RW> I have my first SMP amd64 box at the office now to work with, and thought it RW> was all going to be easy. Sadly not, or at least, not yet. :-) RW> RW> I configured dhcpd, tftpd, and nfs to export the 6.1 install CD from my RW> notebook. All good so far. The problem is as follows: if I insert the 6.1 RW> i386 release CD, it all works great. If I insert the amd64 CD, then I get RW> the following after pxeboot has been going for a bit: RW> RW> ([EMAIL PROTECTED], Sun May 7 02:16:38 UTC 2006) RW> Can't work out which disk we are booting from.Guessed BIOS device 0xffffffff RW> not found by probes, defaulting to disk0: RW> can't load 'kernel' RW> RW> At that point, lsdev shows the disk devices, but not the pxeboot "disk", RW> which leaves me without a kernel, etc. So something is different between RW> the i386 and amd64 disks, or maybe there's a problem with my BIOS. I was RW> wondering if anyone else had set up a similar configuration and had it work?
Well, I can try connecting ATAPI CDROM to our DL145G2 not active yet tomorrow to give it a try. PXE did not work for me either, see previous threads. Sincerely, D.Marck [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
