I am booting 9.0-RELEASE-p4 i386 over PXE with read-only root. I need
hal in order to autoprobe video cards, mouses, keyboards etc. due to
different hardware of clients, but it does not work. Invoking it from
command line gives me error:
# hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes
15:00:11.984 [I] hald.c:673
r can it be > 28bytes.
Yea, FreeBSD is making the assumption that all NFS servers will use the
same size FH for NFSv3. That is just wrong.
carful, I think this is the case only if fsb is the server, it will 'probably'
accept
filehandles of other sizes from other servers.
I&#x
the assumption that all NFS servers will use the
> same size FH for NFSv3. That is just wrong.
>
carful, I think this is the case only if fsb is the server, it will 'probably'
accept
filehandles of other sizes from other servers.
> The FH is a server created opaque ha
Danny Braniss wrote:
Danny Braniss wrote:
Danny Braniss wrote:
there is an undocumented option:
boot-nfsroot-options
that the diskeless boot can use. I tried
boot-nfsroot-options = "nfsv3"
since the pxeboot does the initial mount via nfsv2, and this has at least
one problem: removing
> Danny Braniss wrote:
> >> Danny Braniss wrote:
> >>> there is an undocumented option:
> >>> boot-nfsroot-options
> >>> that the diskeless boot can use. I tried
> >>> boot-nfsroot-options = "nfsv3"
> >>> since the pxeboot does the initial mount via nfsv2, and this has at least
> >>> one probl
Danny Braniss wrote:
Danny Braniss wrote:
there is an undocumented option:
boot-nfsroot-options
that the diskeless boot can use. I tried
boot-nfsroot-options = "nfsv3"
since the pxeboot does the initial mount via nfsv2, and this has at least
one problem: removing a file from the reado
> Danny Braniss wrote:
> > there is an undocumented option:
> > boot-nfsroot-options
> > that the diskeless boot can use. I tried
> > boot-nfsroot-options = "nfsv3"
> > since the pxeboot does the initial mount via nfsv2, and this has at least
> > one problem: removing a file from the reado
Danny Braniss wrote:
there is an undocumented option:
boot-nfsroot-options
that the diskeless boot can use. I tried
boot-nfsroot-options = "nfsv3"
since the pxeboot does the initial mount via nfsv2, and this has at least
one problem: removing a file from the readonly / will hang the sy
there is an undocumented option:
boot-nfsroot-options
that the diskeless boot can use. I tried
boot-nfsroot-options = "nfsv3"
since the pxeboot does the initial mount via nfsv2, and this has at least
one problem: removing a file from the readonly / will hang the system.
so, the re
Hi,
Being a great fan of diskless/dataless hosts, I'm always looking
for ways to reduce the administration 'overhead'. One issue is the number of
different /(root) needed - one for each platform/os-version at least.
Another issue is the particular configuration of a host, mo
lso true for 6.2.
> > /(root) is mounted diskless, doing rm of a file in /, even as a lowly mor=
> tal
> > will hang the network, and hence everything.
> > on a 6.1 system, it works as expected.
> >=20
> > badwolf> rm /usr/ports
> > rm: /usr/ports: Read-only fil
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 11:55:10AM +0300, Danny Braniss wrote:
> I stumbled on this in -current, but it's also true for 6.2.
> /(root) is mounted diskless, doing rm of a file in /, even as a lowly mortal
> will hang the network, and hence everything.
> on a 6.1 system, it
I stumbled on this in -current, but it's also true for 6.2.
/(root) is mounted diskless, doing rm of a file in /, even as a lowly mortal
will hang the network, and hence everything.
on a 6.1 system, it works as expected.
badwolf> rm /usr/ports
rm: /usr/ports: Read-only file system
i&#
Hi, Brooks!
Thanks for the advice, it helped!
> I have to say that I use this loader.rc for network boot:
> load /boot/kernel/kernel
> echo \007\007
> set console="vidconsole"
> autoboot
Do you by chance have a /boot.config? It sounds like your system is
probably running on a serial console.
executed during the
> boot process?
> Is there some kind of option to change this?
> Or may be I misconfigured something ?
If you boot diskless and /usr or /usr/local is a seperate NFS mount you
must adjust the value of the rc.conf(5) variable early_late_divider for
your scripts to be proces
Hello everyone,
I'm using 6-stable on 4 amd64 machines. One of them has FreeBSD on its
local hard drive and others are booted via network with PXE.
But I encounter that /usr/local/etc/rc.d/* are not executed during the
boot process?
Is there some kind of option to change this?
Or may be I misconf
On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 10:31:43AM +0200, Marco Molteni wrote:
> Hi,
>
> lately I have been playing with diskless booting with 6.x and 7.x.
> I understand how the whole /conf overriding mechanism works, and
> I think it is useful.
>
> What I am missing is the usefulness of
Hi,
lately I have been playing with diskless booting with 6.x and 7.x.
I understand how the whole /conf overriding mechanism works, and
I think it is useful.
What I am missing is the usefulness of conf/base, especially
conf/base/etc, that diskless(8) suggests to fill with the same
etc in
On Wed, 5 Oct 2005 13:14:14 -0700
Brooks Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 09:07:58PM +0200, Marco Molteni wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am trying to boot a diskless box (via PXE), both server and
> > diskless run FreeBSD 6.0-BETA4.
On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 09:07:58PM +0200, Marco Molteni wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to boot a diskless box (via PXE), both server and diskless
> run FreeBSD 6.0-BETA4. The diskless machine hangs after printing
> the date on the console. I added debug output to /etc/rc,
> /et
Hi,
I am trying to boot a diskless box (via PXE), both server and diskless
run FreeBSD 6.0-BETA4. The diskless machine hangs after printing
the date on the console. I added debug output to /etc/rc,
/etc/initdiskless and finally /sbin/init. It seems to hang in init
after calling multi_user().
A
On Thu, 31 Mar 2005, Colin Percival wrote:
Tom Alsberg wrote:
Perhaps this should go to -STABLE, I just couldn't be sure.
It will get more attention on freebsd-stable@, so I'm CCing that list.
We are trying out FreeBSD 5.4-PRERELEASE on diskless clients. I
noticed one problem,
e/examples/diskless/clone_root )
2. install isc-dhcp3-server port , and configure the dhcpd.conf
3. setup TFTP service and NFS service both.
4. get etherboot Image file via following web site, and 'dd' this
image to floppy disk.
http://rom-o-matic.net/5.2.6/build.php?version=5.2.6&F=&arc
kup ERROR: Stale NFS file handle
I wonder where the `Stale NFS handle' error comes from, as the client
doesn't seem to have mounted the filesystem over NFS from what I can
see. On the console of the diskless I have this:
NFS ROOT: 10.158.190.73:/var/www/FreeBSD-5.4-x86-PXE
em0: Link is up
Tom Alsberg wrote:
> Perhaps this should go to -STABLE, I just couldn't be sure.
It will get more attention on freebsd-stable@, so I'm CCing that list.
> We are trying out FreeBSD 5.4-PRERELEASE on diskless clients. I
> noticed one problem, being that when setting the LD_LIB
Perhaps this should go to -STABLE, I just couldn't be sure.
We are trying out FreeBSD 5.4-PRERELEASE on diskless clients. I
noticed one problem, being that when setting the LD_LIBRARY_PATH
(or for that matter, LD_PRELOAD, and LD_LIBMAP_DISABLE) environment
variables, nothing will ru
Hey all, I'm running 5.2.1-p1 on trying to do PXEBOOT, nfs root, mfs tmp
and var.
It all works great, but when I try to execute a linux binary, I get a
panic "double fault". Sometimes it shows "nfs_getpages: error: 70".
That's the error for stale file.
I'm guessing linux emul is trying to do so
On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Steve Watt wrote:
> I'm trying to see if there's a way to get that information into the
> loader (or the driver) in some way that doesn't require rewriting a file
> in the flash every reboot, to avoid flash write cycles.
>
> I know there's some amount of NVRAM in PCs, but didn
ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/users/danny/freebsd/diskless-boot/
or
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=61239
danny
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is that it would be easy to
} script changes on the server as opposed to changes on the flash card.
} You also don't need to worry about wearing out the server's disks.
Ah! I see how that works. Only catch is, I'm getting a strange result
when trying diskless boots. I've got
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 01:16:01PM -0800, Steve Watt wrote:
> On Jan 14, 13:11, Brooks Davis wrote:
> } On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 12:55:49PM -0800, Steve Watt wrote:
> } > I'm working on a dataless system that will be booting and rooting
> } > from flash for some environmental chamber (thermal) tests
On Jan 14, 13:11, Brooks Davis wrote:
} On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 12:55:49PM -0800, Steve Watt wrote:
} > I'm working on a dataless system that will be booting and rooting
} > from flash for some environmental chamber (thermal) tests, and
} > logging the results to an NFS server outside the chamber.
On Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 12:55:49PM -0800, Steve Watt wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I'm working on a dataless system that will be booting and rooting
> from flash for some environmental chamber (thermal) tests, and
> logging the results to an NFS server outside the chamber.
I've got to ask, if you're in
Greetings,
I'm working on a dataless system that will be booting and rooting
from flash for some environmental chamber (thermal) tests, and
logging the results to an NFS server outside the chamber.
The problem is that the driver for the card under test only supports
one card at a time. That's re
i re-applied the patches to the latest bootp.c, and took care not to
botch up the tabs, but my user friendly emacs was not too helpful :-)
(the diff is now about 500 lines)
the PR is:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=61239
thanks,
danny
> Sounds very interesting indeed.
.ac.il/users/danny/freebsd/diskless-boot/
>
> these are a bit date, but the uptodated stuff is actively being used
> here, so if there is some interest i could update it.
Sounds very interesting indeed. Could you:
(1) Update it to bootp.c:1.5; this just removed 'register'
while the subject is being revived, there are some changes/additions I
made to libstand/bootp.c, it exports all the dhcp tags so that
they are available to rc.diskless? or rc.d/initdiskless via kenv
check out
ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/users/danny/freebsd/diskless-boot/
these are a bit date
On Sat, 10 Jan 2004, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Robert Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > On Sat, 10 Jan 2004, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> > > I'll try again without the BOOTP options...
> > Yeah. Our PXE booting support isn't really the same
Robert Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sat, 10 Jan 2004, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> > I'll try again without the BOOTP options...
> Yeah. Our PXE booting support isn't really the same as the traditional
> diskless booting environment.
It works
p] [tos 0x10]
> 22:18:38.239936 0:40:63:c4:60:3d ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff 0800 1502: 0.0.0.0.68 >
> 255.255.255.255.67: xid:0x0001 flags:0x8000 [|bootp] [ttl 1]
>
> > What kernel configuration are you using? Are there multiple ethernet
> > devices in the system?
>
> I f
8000 [|bootp] [ttl 1]
> What kernel configuration are you using? Are there multiple ethernet
> devices in the system?
I followed the advice from the diskless(8) man page. There's only one
interface, and tcpdump clearly shows that the DHCP server recieves a
request but does not
On Sat, 10 Jan 2004, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> I'm trying to set up a VIA C3-based mini-ITX box for diskless boot using
> isc-dhcpd 3.0 from ports. The kernel and modules load fine, but
> isc-dhcpd doesn't seem to answer the kernel's DHCP discover message.
>
>
I'm trying to set up a VIA C3-based mini-ITX box for diskless boot
using isc-dhcpd 3.0 from ports. The kernel and modules load fine, but
isc-dhcpd doesn't seem to answer the kernel's DHCP discover message.
The following is a tcpdump of the traffic the DHCP server sees. I
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 04:58:22PM +, Bob Bishop wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Anyone got diskless working on 4.9R? Probes look OK then I'm getting:
>
> ...
> Mounting root from nfs:192.168.0.1:/diskless4.9
> missing device name
> setrootbyname failed
> SMP: AP CPU #3 Lan
Hi,
I wrote:
Anyone got diskless working on 4.9R? Probes look OK then I'm getting:
...
Mounting root from nfs:192.168.0.1:/diskless4.9
missing device name
setrootbyname failed
SMP: AP CPU #3 Lanuched!
SMP: AP CPU #2 Lanuched!
SMP: AP CPU #1 Lanuched!
panic: nfs_mountroot: RTM_ADD: 51
[etc]
Hi,
Anyone got diskless working on 4.9R? Probes look OK then I'm getting:
...
Mounting root from nfs:192.168.0.1:/diskless4.9
missing device name
setrootbyname failed
SMP: AP CPU #3 Lanuched!
SMP: AP CPU #2 Lanuched!
SMP: AP CPU #1 Lanuched!
panic: nfs_mountroot: RTM_ADD: 51
[etc]
This is a
On some diskless 4.x systems, I've got the following patch in place to
let me do things before and after rc.diskless2 does it's stuff:
Index: rc.diskless2
===
RCS file: /usr/cvs/src/etc/Attic/rc.diskless2,v
retrievin
On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Cosmin Stroe wrote:
> Is there a codafs diskless booting option available for FreeBSD ..
> something similar to the NFS_ROOT option available currently in the
> kernel ?
>
> Is there even CODA fs builtin kernel support ?
Unlike many network file systems, C
Hello,
Is there a codafs diskless booting option available for
FreeBSD .. something similar to the NFS_ROOT option available
currently in the kernel ?
Is there even CODA fs builtin kernel support ?
Thank you.
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I've played around with this a bit, and so far on my other test systems, as
long as I don't do anything beyond basic booting, ie load a mem manager,
device drivers, etc, it seems to work pretty well. Near as I can tell the
problem I'm running up against is in the initilization of the mii section
In the last episode (Feb 06), Predius said:
> > Parasite (iPaq): 32MB Compact Flash card, formated as a FAT fs, loads DOS,
> > and uses dosboot.com (from netbsd) to load a freebsd kernel on the
> > filesystem.
>
> Looks like I stumped freebsd-questions, anyone else care to take a whack at
> this?
Looks like I stumped freebsd-questions, anyone else care to take a whack at
this?
Joshua Coombs
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From: "Predius" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 11:47 PM
Subject: Diskless USB Issue
> I'm
* Robert Thoelen III <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [020116 11:29] wrote:
> Sorry about the previous empty post. I am trying
> create a filesystem on a server running FreeBSD at
> work. I would like to create a floppy that would
> mount the filesystem by NFS. This way, on any given
> machine at work, I co
machine at work, I could put the floppy in and turn it
> into a BSD workstation, without manipulating the hard
> disk.
>
Have you checked out the Handbook, in particular section
17.5 Diskless Operation at:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/diskless.html
--
Chr
Sorry about the previous empty post. I am trying
create a filesystem on a server running FreeBSD at
work. I would like to create a floppy that would
mount the filesystem by NFS. This way, on any given
machine at work, I could put the floppy in and turn it
into a BSD workstation, without manipul
of
> > 2-3 different filesystems, so between the mounts you have to populate
> > /conf/etc as well.
>
> that's why im using /etc and not /conf/etc, it was becoming to complicated
> having
> more than one /etc. the nice thing is that i can use the same root for non
>
/conf/etc as well.
that's why im using /etc and not /conf/etc, it was becoming to complicated
having
more than one /etc. the nice thing is that i can use the same root for non
diskless
too.
>
> cheers
> luigi
chiao
danny
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> hi,
> i modified rc.diskless1 to use union fs like:
>
> mount_md 1024 /conf/etc 0
> mount -t union /conf/etc /etc
>
> any reason why this might be problematic?
not sure, i think i tried this at some point and had problems with
bugs in the implementation of mount_union. If it works for
David Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > "Dima" == Dima Dorfman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Dima> Only the `malloc' md type (as much as the name suggests
> Dima> otherwise, it can be configured not to use malloc as a backing
> Dima> store) has the limits I think you're referring to. It
> "Dima" == Dima Dorfman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Dima> David Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> I have somewhat of an interesting problem: I have applications that
>> write arbitrarily large files (as much as 6 gig) and I find that
>> the best performance for these disks is to use som
David Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have somewhat of an interesting problem: I have applications that
> write arbitrarily large files (as much as 6 gig) and I find that the
> best performance for these disks is to use something like MFS.
>
> However, mfs has a maximum size of 512M.
>
I have somewhat of an interesting problem: I have applications that
write arbitrarily large files (as much as 6 gig) and I find that the
best performance for these disks is to use something like MFS.
However, mfs has a maximum size of 512M.
md appears to have a very small maximum size and only
Matt Dillon([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2001.07.13 15:27:08 +:
> Also, do performance testing with dynamic-linked verses static-linked
> binaries. Static-linked binaries may look larger, but they have a
> much lower dirty-page overhead then the dynamically linked equivalent.
> It depe
>>>>> "Ian" == Ian Dowse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Ian> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David
Ian> Gilbert write s:
>> Is it not possible (or has nobody done it) to swap with the current
>> diskless boot?
Ian> The patch (against RELEN
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Gilbert write
s:
>Is it not possible (or has nobody done it) to swap with the current
>diskless boot?
I do remember some problem with PXE and swap, but I forget the
details or if it was resolved. The diskless setup that we have
locally uses an MF
:
:Is it not possible (or has nobody done it) to swap with the current
:diskless boot? Of all people, I would have expected Matt to be able
:to help :).
Sure you can swap. I haven't diskless-booted a box in a few months so
someone might have broken something, but I have defin
inked equivalent. It depends on the situation but
Matt> it is definitely worth testing.
Is it not possible (or has nobody done it) to swap with the current
diskless boot? Of all people, I would have expected Matt to be able
to help :).
I have quite a few systems netbooting using etherboot flo
:Thierry> I don't know : my application was "embedded" and used much
:Thierry> less than the 128MBytes installed in the machines (thus no
:Thierry> swap!)
:
:I'm currently running in this configuration ... and have noticed that
:the system will allow clean pages (largely loaded from the
:executab
>>>>> "Thierry" == Thierry Herbelot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Thierry> David Gilbert wrote:
>>
Thierry> [SNIP]
>> I'm still having trouble with diskless operation. If I specify
>> the swap option in DHCP, the pxeboot chokes on i
David Gilbert wrote:
>
[SNIP]
>
> I'm still having trouble with diskless operation. If I specify the
> swap option in DHCP, the pxeboot chokes on it. If I don't specify the
> swap there, things boot, but I have no swap. There isn't an obvious
> way to add
On Mon, Apr 02, 2001 at 12:54:35AM +0300, petro wrote:
> May be some of you can advice me where I can get nb3c509.com file for my
> diskless station with 3Com509 Ethernet, beceuse I can't run make in
> netboot directory.
Have you looked at the etherboot port?
David.
Hi.
May be some of you can advice me where I can get nb3c509.com file for my
diskless station with 3Com509 Ethernet, beceuse I can't run make in
netboot directory.
Thank you very much for any help.
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>
> they've done this, but their newest BIOS (8 days old) still has a 0.78
> PXE revision (I've seen more recent DELL machines with a 0.99 - I assume
> this is better)
I have many intel MBs with built-in fxp nics that have 0.78 that work with
4.2's pxeboot just fine - I'm not trying to boot kern
For more docs, check out
http://matt.simerson.net/computing/freebsd.netboot.shtml . It clarifies a
great deal.
- dan feldman
student, garfield high school, seattle
On Fri, 16 Mar 2001, Paul Saab wrote:
> Thierry Herbelot ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > One way to boot the kerne
Paul Saab wrote:
>
> Thierry Herbelot ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > they've done this, but their newest BIOS (8 days old) still has a 0.78
> > PXE revision (I've seen more recent DELL machines with a 0.99 - I assume
> > this is better)
>
> No.. 0.99 is the orginal PXE v1. PXE v2 (build 78) is
Thierry Herbelot ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> they've done this, but their newest BIOS (8 days old) still has a 0.78
> PXE revision (I've seen more recent DELL machines with a 0.99 - I assume
> this is better)
No.. 0.99 is the orginal PXE v1. PXE v2 (build 78) is what you have
and is highly bugg
Paul Saab wrote:
>
> Thierry Herbelot ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > Paul Saab wrote:
> > >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > My problem is that the NIC I'm trying to boot from is an on-board fxp on
> > a Motorola p-III M/B (I assume there is no specific "PXE rom", as PXE
> > may be included in the BIOS)
> >
>
Thierry Herbelot ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Paul Saab wrote:
> >
>
> Hi,
>
> My problem is that the NIC I'm trying to boot from is an on-board fxp on
> a Motorola p-III M/B (I assume there is no specific "PXE rom", as PXE
> may be included in the BIOS)
>
> will your "intel board" upgrade .ex
Paul Saab wrote:
>
Hi,
My problem is that the NIC I'm trying to boot from is an on-board fxp on
a Motorola p-III M/B (I assume there is no specific "PXE rom", as PXE
may be included in the BIOS)
will your "intel board" upgrade .exe work in this setup ?
TfH
> Upgrade the PXE rom
> htt
Thierry Herbelot ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> One way to boot the kernel over the network is to use PXE (if your
> machine is recent enough to support it *well* : that is with a recent
> version of the PXE firmware)
>
> there is no real document on PXE booting
> you can read a note by Al
;m trying to use PXE, but it's not completly reliable (sometimes
pxeboot just crashes)
TfH
Rohit Rakshe wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I am running FreeBSD 4.1 on an Intel-III box. It is not a diskless
> machine, so root fs is still local, but I need to boot kernel ove
Hello,
I am running FreeBSD 4.1 on an Intel-III box. It is not a diskless
machine, so root fs is still local, but I need to boot kernel over
ethernet.
Reason for such a requirement: I am doing some kernel debugging and it is
relatively quicker (after a panic) to recompile kernel on a server and
hi all,
I've made some changes to libstand/bootp.c and they are available
for evaluation/comments/critics at:
ftp://ftp.cs.huji.ac.il/users/danny/freebsd/diskless-boot
short desc.:
o the bootp request now does a vendor-specific-request FreeBSDc
inste
On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 12:13:40PM +0200, Danny Braniss wrote:
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>you write:
> }It its the bios disk probe that is causing the machine to fault.
>
> I can now confirm that it's a divide by zero in the Adaptec BIOS GRR.
> (in biosdisk, when 'probing' the adaptec) a
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>you write:
}It its the bios disk probe that is causing the machine to fault.
I can now confirm that it's a divide by zero in the Adaptec BIOS GRR.
(in biosdisk, when 'probing' the adaptec) and it happens on a AIC 7899, but
works ok on some other ADAPTECs.
the pr
It its the bios disk probe that is causing the machine to fault.
I suppose you really dont need to probe the disks when you are netbooting.
Danny Braniss ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> im now being bitten by this one, but with a twist:
> on a compaq deskpro workstation it's ok
> on a dell-precisi
On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Doug White wrote:
> This is a bug in the adaptec BIOS. Don't do this for boot disks. Use
> fdisk/real slices instead.
Or possibly, dont do this for any disk in the system. Some bioses choke
even on non-boot disks with DD partitioning...
Fred
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On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Danny Braniss wrote:
> im now being bitten by this one, but with a twist:
> on a compaq deskpro workstation it's ok
> on a dell-precision 420, it bombs.
> both bioses are configured to boot via the network/pxe.
>
> im using the same disks for both boxes.
>
> i labeled the
On 29-Jan-01 Danny Braniss wrote:
> im now being bitten by this one, but with a twist:
> on a compaq deskpro workstation it's ok
> on a dell-precision 420, it bombs.
> both bioses are configured to boot via the network/pxe.
>
> im using the same disks for both boxes.
>
> i labeled the disks w
im now being bitten by this one, but with a twist:
on a compaq deskpro workstation it's ok
on a dell-precision 420, it bombs.
both bioses are configured to boot via the network/pxe.
im using the same disks for both boxes.
i labeled the disks with:
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rda0 bs=1k count=1
d
Hi All,
I want to try to boot the diskless system, so I compile nb8390.com with
NE2000 support. But I got the following error during the process. Did I
make a mistake?
# make
Warning: Object directory not changed from original
On Fri, 15 Dec 2000, Danny Braniss wrote:
> hi all,
> I can't get the pxe/dhcp to work when it's 100Mbit Ethernet, it works
> fine when it's 10Mbit. Actually a newer Intel MB just succeeded, but 99%
> of the pxe enabled cards fail at 100Mbit. from sniffing the net the broadcast
> dhcp reque
hi all,
I can't get the pxe/dhcp to work when it's 100Mbit Ethernet, it works
fine when it's 10Mbit. Actually a newer Intel MB just succeeded, but 99%
of the pxe enabled cards fail at 100Mbit. from sniffing the net the broadcast
dhcp request does not make it. it does not help to set the sw
to, after it went multiuser, to panic when i did the
}> cmp -s ${T} /etc/motd
}>
}> any insights?
}
}Bad hardware?
ahh, wish it was that easy. i just finished doing a make world on the diskless
and all went ok - i didn't check if the compiled is ok, but many processes/io
l
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}make sure the kernel you are booting is the same as the NFS file systems
}you are using.
they are.
danny
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> hi all,
> how can I set the equiv of -D/-h in /boot.config in a diskless-pxeboot
> machine? i think that {rootnfs-server}/boot.config is not read at all.
console="comconsole"
in nfs://boot/loader.conf
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On 30-Nov-00 Danny Braniss wrote:
>
> }There's no way to really do it right now, but you can use:
> }http://people.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/pxekey.patch
> }
> }This will do the equivalent of -P for pxeboot.
> }
> thanks,
> i added the patches, make BOOT_PXELDR_PROBE_KEYBOARD=1
> removed th
On 30-Nov-00 Paul Saab wrote:
> Danny Braniss ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>> hi all,
>> how can I set the equiv of -D/-h in /boot.config in a diskless-pxeboot
>> machine? i think that {rootnfs-server}/boot.config is not read at all.
>>
>> tia,
>>
Danny Braniss ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
>
> }There's no way to really do it right now, but you can use:
> }http://people.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/pxekey.patch
> }
> }This will do the equivalent of -P for pxeboot.
> }
> thanks,
> i added the patches, make BOOT_PXELDR_PROBE_KEYBOARD=1
> remo
}There's no way to really do it right now, but you can use:
}http://people.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/patches/pxekey.patch
}
}This will do the equivalent of -P for pxeboot.
}
thanks,
i added the patches, make BOOT_PXELDR_PROBE_KEYBOARD=1
removed the keyboard, but zero.
i even commented out the ifde
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