I've been experiencing a problem getting a soekris to pxe boot properly.
I've tried this with both RELENG_4_8 and RELENG_4 and it still gives
me the same problem. I've read and re-read the diskless operation, nfs,
and freebsd booting process sections in the handbook, as well as tried
to read
Are you sure that you have a kernel at /tmp ? Your config says that the
root "/" for this boot is really at /tmp
--Wes
On Oct 14, 2003, at 12:09 PM, Dave O wrote:
I've been experiencing a problem getting a soekris to pxe boot
properly. I've tried this with both RELENG_4_8 and RELENG_4 and it
Wes Zuber wrote:
Are you sure that you have a kernel at /tmp ? Your config says that the
root "/" for this boot is really at /tmp
--Wes
Yes, I've placed a stripped and gzipped kernel in both /tmp and, just to
be on the safe side, in the /tftpboot directory as well. It seems to me
that it loa
What about the
/tmp/conf/default/etc/fstab ?
--Wes
On Oct 14, 2003, at 12:37 PM, Dave O wrote:
Wes Zuber wrote:
Are you sure that you have a kernel at /tmp ? Your config says that
the root "/" for this boot is really at /tmp
--Wes
Yes, I've placed a stripped and gzipped kernel in both /tmp an
Wes Zuber wrote:
What about the
/tmp/conf/default/etc/fstab ?
--Wes
Initially I didn't have anything, not even that directory created. I've
created and removed the /conf directory many times and must've confused
/conf/base with /conf/default. Re-reading diskless(8) I see that that
is inde
Wes Zuber wrote:
Ah, ok I don't think you can just copy /etc/ straight over without
changing a couple of things. We have our setup working but as I recall
there were many details. We had to uncover one detail at a time (like
you are doing).
Here is our rc.conf in /tmp/conf/default/etc/
# -- sy
Ok, the last problem I was experiencing when the console would just
freeze while the kernel was attempting to do the nfs mount was due to a
firewall rule. At least, that's what I gathered after scrolling through
a tcpdump capture. I don't have the message handy, but it seemed to
have been due