Hey all,
I've been having a problem that hopefully someone would be able to help
me with. I've been trying to boot FreeBSD via PXE for at least a couple
of days now with no luck. I've read several online guides none of which
explain using a root mfs to accomplish this task. Most of the manuals
I've read go over mounting / as NFS which isn't ideal for me.
I've got mostly everything working *up to* the point where the system
begins bootstrapping. It loads the kernel, loads the mfs root and then
the machine immediately reboots. For the life of me, I can't figure out
why. I was hoping that someone has a documented method for initializing
a FreeBSD system via PXE and without the use of NFS for the root filesystem.
For refernce my loader.rc:
echo Loading Your Kernel Fool!!!
set hint.acpi.0.disabled="1" ## have tried it without
it being disabled.
load /boot/kernel/kernel
echo
echo Loading mfs filesystem YoYo!!
load -t mfs_root /mfsroot
echo booting...
echo \007\007
set vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/md0" ## have tried /dev/md0c as well
boot
------------------------------------------------------------------
wacko# ll /tftpboot/mfsroot
-rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 4423680 Nov 2 02:33 /tftpboot/mfsroot
--------------------------------------------------------------------
Assuming the mfs file sysetm is being create without error (I assume it
is due to a lack of error messages), then I assume loader reads init
like usual.
wacko# file /mnt/mfsroot/sbin/init
/mnt/mfsroot/sbin/init: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version
1 (FreeBSD), statically linked, stripped
And then continues on with /etc/rc....
wacko# file /mnt/mfsroot/etc/rc
/mnt/mfsroot/etc/rc: Bourne shell script text executable
As for the rest of the files....they are certainly all there.........
I believe it's also worth mentioning, that if I use the mfsroot that
comes with the installer, it loads/run fine. Not sure if this helps any
or not.
What could I possibly be missing?
Thanks for the time.
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