Re: Running OS tftp vs. pxeboot tftp

2012-05-16 Thread Rick Miller
Thanks for your feedback. I agree that separating the networks and isolating the build network thus eliminating the need for VLAN tagging is the ideal scenario. Unfortunately, influencing those changes are beyond my sphere of influence in this particular case. At the end of the day, our solution

Re: Running OS tftp vs. pxeboot tftp

2012-03-14 Thread Erik Nørgaard
Hi On 14/03/2012 11:44, Rick Miller wrote: I thought I would follow up on this as a couple individuals expressed an interest in it... We have isolated the configuration in which this occurs under. It occurs during the execution of pxeboot.bs on brocade switches with vlan tagging enabled. You

Re: Running OS tftp vs. pxeboot tftp

2012-03-14 Thread Rick Miller
I thought I would follow up on this as a couple individuals expressed an interest in it... We have isolated the configuration in which this occurs under. It occurs during the execution of pxeboot.bs on brocade switches with vlan tagging enabled. We have begun to review the pxeboot.bs source code

Re: Running OS tftp vs. pxeboot tftp

2012-03-06 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Rick Miller To: Erik Nørgaard ; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Sunday, March 4, 2012 3:51 PM Subject: Re: Running OS tftp vs. pxeboot tftp Hi Erik, Thanks for getting back to me.  The original problem is the same issue...we are still working it, but we've isolate

Re: Running OS tftp vs. pxeboot tftp

2012-03-04 Thread Rick Miller
Hi Erik, Thanks for getting back to me. The original problem is the same issue...we are still working it, but we've isolated the configuration where the issue manifests itself. It has to do with the FreeBSD pxeboot and Brocade switches. We will continue troubleshooting in our lab. When

Re: Running OS tftp vs. pxeboot tftp

2012-03-04 Thread Erik Nørgaard
with the supplied pxeboot, you can compile your own. You previusly wrote about VLAN tagging for your pxeboot nodes, but never wrote back if you solved the problem. What's your setup? I ask because I have encountered a scenario where pxeboot.bs is tftp'ing boot files from a PXE server

Re: FreeBSD 9-R pxeboot fails with 'Mounting root filesystem rw failed'...

2012-03-01 Thread egoitz
In the "new" way of booting... you need to have the cd because the own cd is the root filesystem... and in fact is live filesystem too so unless you're booting from mfsroot... I assume you should have that line in /etc/fstab inside the iso image but if you're using mfsroot... I really e

Running OS tftp vs. pxeboot tftp

2012-03-01 Thread Rick Miller
Hi All, Are there significant differences in the implementation between the tftp client in FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE and the client implementation in pxeboot.bs? I ask because I have encountered a scenario where pxeboot.bs is tftp'ing boot files from a PXE server and fails in random spots while attempt

Re: FreeBSD 9-R pxeboot fails with 'Mounting root filesystem rw failed'...

2012-03-01 Thread Karl Pielorz
--On 01 March 2012 11:53 +0100 ego...@ramattack.net wrote: So I recomend you reading last mails of mine in freebsd-hackers... Hope it helps, Bye! For what it's worth - I've resolved the issue I had (which was basically the system booted, but failed trying to re-mount root as RW, and hence

Re: FreeBSD 9-R pxeboot fails with 'Mounting root filesystem rw failed'...

2012-03-01 Thread egoitz
gt; Hi, > > > I've got a 9.0-R amd64 system I'm trying to netboot / pxeboot from the > network, to install other machines (and do fixups etc.) > > I set this up as we setup previous versions here - but setting up a tftp > server, and nfs server - and 'dumping'

FreeBSD 9-R pxeboot fails with 'Mounting root filesystem rw failed'...

2012-03-01 Thread Karl Pielorz
Hi, I've got a 9.0-R amd64 system I'm trying to netboot / pxeboot from the network, to install other machines (and do fixups etc.) I set this up as we setup previous versions here - but setting up a tftp server, and nfs server - and 'dumping' the contents of the install C

Re: zfs clone, nfs and pxeboot

2011-07-28 Thread David Arendt
Hi, yes, I know, but it would be interesing to know if there is a general problem with zfs clones shared over nfs or if it is pxeboot related. Bye, David Arendt On 07/28/11 13:10, krad wrote: On 28 July 2011 11:41, wrote: Hi, I wanted to experiment a bit with pxeboot. Therefore I

Re: zfs clone, nfs and pxeboot

2011-07-28 Thread krad
On 28 July 2011 11:41, wrote: > Hi, > > I wanted to experiment a bit with pxeboot. Therefore I created a zfs clone > of a jail filesystem. The clone was shared as via nfs. Pxeboot complained > that it can't load the kernel. The pxeboot ls command gave some correct > an

zfs clone, nfs and pxeboot

2011-07-28 Thread admin
Hi, I wanted to experiment a bit with pxeboot. Therefore I created a zfs clone of a jail filesystem. The clone was shared as via nfs. Pxeboot complained that it can't load the kernel. The pxeboot ls command gave some correct and some really messed up filenames. I then deleted the clone and c

Re: PXEBOOT based upgrade/install

2009-06-18 Thread Tim Judd
ds > local postgres and other stuff. Yes, I could put it elsewhere, but it > would mean flying 5 hours to do it. Rather just do an upgrade. > >> >> On 6/18/09, Bruce Ferrell wrote: >>> Hi all! >>> >>> I'm new in these parts, but not new to *nix.

Re: PXEBOOT based upgrade/install

2009-06-18 Thread Erik Norgaard
Bruce Ferrell wrote: Hi all! I'm new in these parts, but not new to *nix. I'm trying to upgrade a system with FreeBSD 5.4 to 7.2. I've gotten the pxeboot to work, but somehow the network interface isn't seen by the installer. loader.rc: === include /boot/load

Re: PXEBOOT based upgrade/install

2009-06-18 Thread Bruce Ferrell
I need the stuff on the local disk as it runs an application that needs local postgres and other stuff. Yes, I could put it elsewhere, but it would mean flying 5 hours to do it. Rather just do an upgrade. > > On 6/18/09, Bruce Ferrell wrote: >> Hi all! >> >> I'm new in t

Re: PXEBOOT based upgrade/install

2009-06-18 Thread Tim Judd
'm trying to upgrade a > system with FreeBSD 5.4 to 7.2. > > I've gotten the pxeboot to work, but somehow the network interface isn't > seen by the installer. > > loader.rc: > === > include /boot/loader.4th > include /boot/beastie.4th > > \ Reads

PXEBOOT based upgrade/install

2009-06-18 Thread Bruce Ferrell
Hi all! I'm new in these parts, but not new to *nix. I'm trying to upgrade a system with FreeBSD 5.4 to 7.2. I've gotten the pxeboot to work, but somehow the network interface isn't seen by the installer. loader.rc: === include /boot/loader.4th include /boot/beas

Re: Optimising pxeboot disk size

2008-12-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
add second echo to >>/var/log/messages ;) Hope not to forget one > ;-) But is there a system call or configuration to do that automatically ? I can see some echo in /etc/rc without any >>, and their result seems to go to /var/messages. I wish to learn to do clean scripting :-) actually i

Re: Optimising pxeboot disk size

2008-12-30 Thread Bernard Dugas
Wojciech Puchar wrote: I couldn't find the hostname sent by dhcp, but found a way to find the ip address. just use hostname command. I did, but the answer is empty (remember this is before /etc/rc is run). Where is kept the data received by dhcp_client during pxe boot ? The only problem i

Re: Optimising pxeboot disk size

2008-12-29 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Thank you very much, it is now running well after some hardware adventure. I couldn't find the hostname sent by dhcp, but found a way to find the ip address. just use hostname command. The only problem i have is that the "echo done" and other standard outputs are not visible in /var/log/me

Re: Optimising pxeboot disk size

2008-12-29 Thread Bernard Dugas
Hello, Wojciech Puchar wrote: i already did such things but with NetBSD 1.5 for my Xterminal distro. it's simple: mount / readonly, put everything here. in /etc put /etc/rc consisting only #!/bin/sh exec /systemrc in /systemrc put something like that: #!/bin/sh echo -n Mounting workstation co

Re: Optimising pxeboot disk size

2008-12-16 Thread Bernard Dugas
Paul B. Mahol wrote: Well, I tested unionfs on CURRENT and it did not crashed on me. Feel free to test it on 7 STABLE and report results to developers. Thanks for the feed-back, i will no more be afraid to test :-) I will tell you later, Best regards, -- Bernard DUGAS Mobile +33 615 333 770 __

Re: Optimising pxeboot disk size

2008-12-16 Thread Paul B. Mahol
On 12/16/08, Bernard Dugas wrote: > Paul B. Mahol wrote: > >> On 12/16/08, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > When you want to change something, you add a rw TransparentLayer : mount -tl yournfsserver:/StationYchanges/etc /etc So that changed or added files are only stored in this rw parti

Re: Optimising pxeboot disk size

2008-12-16 Thread Da Rock
On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 15:02 +0100, Bernard Dugas wrote: > Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > i already did such things but with NetBSD 1.5 for my Xterminal distro. > > > > it's simple: > > More simple when you tell it ;-) Thanks a lot, i will try it tonight ! > > > I wish it's helpful, doing this doesn'

Re: Optimising pxeboot disk size

2008-12-16 Thread Wojciech Puchar
MOUNT_NULLFS(8) doc is very detailled, but i can't find how to use it for my problem : being able to go from common shared configuration to specific you can't - nullfs doesn't do this. use symlinks /etc containing tons of links to /sharedetc and few files instead of symlink - for those that

Re: Optimising pxeboot disk size

2008-12-16 Thread Bernard Dugas
Paul B. Mahol wrote: On 12/16/08, Wojciech Puchar wrote: When you want to change something, you add a rw TransparentLayer : mount -tl yournfsserver:/StationYchanges/etc /etc So that changed or added files are only stored in this rw partition, thus very small and easy to manage. This would

Re: Optimising pxeboot disk size

2008-12-16 Thread Bernard Dugas
Wojciech Puchar wrote: mount_unionfs but i don't know how stable it is. Thanks to fill my dreams :-) The dream is close, but still a dream :-( http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mount_unionfs&sektion=8&apropos=0&manpath=FreeBSD+7.0-RELEASE "BUGS THIS FILE SYSTEM TYPE IS NOT YET FUL

Re: Optimising pxeboot disk size

2008-12-16 Thread Paul B. Mahol
On 12/16/08, Wojciech Puchar wrote: >>> it's simple: >> >> More simple when you tell it ;-) Thanks a lot, i will try it tonight ! > > it doesn't have chance - must work :) > >> >>> I wish it's helpful, doing this doesn't just save space but saves time - >>> you have to upgrade software once. >> >>

Re: Optimising pxeboot disk size

2008-12-16 Thread Wojciech Puchar
it's simple: More simple when you tell it ;-) Thanks a lot, i will try it tonight ! it doesn't have chance - must work :) I wish it's helpful, doing this doesn't just save space but saves time - you have to upgrade software once. So preserving consistency, which is the most important whe

Re: Optimising pxeboot disk size

2008-12-16 Thread Bernard Dugas
Wojciech Puchar wrote: i already did such things but with NetBSD 1.5 for my Xterminal distro. it's simple: More simple when you tell it ;-) Thanks a lot, i will try it tonight ! I wish it's helpful, doing this doesn't just save space but saves time - you have to upgrade software once. So p

Re: Optimising pxeboot disk size

2008-12-16 Thread Wojciech Puchar
on NFS server. Lot of root directories can be shared and mounted in fstab, after booting process : /usr, /home... In current solution, the minimum root directories i had to keep for managing to boot are : bin libexec sbin boot etc lib i already did such things but with NetBSD 1.5 for my Xt

Optimising pxeboot disk size

2008-12-16 Thread Bernard Dugas
Hi, I'm working on a project to have many diskless clients PXEbooting on 1 nfs server. This works now, but i would like to have a more efficient use of disk space on NFS server. Lot of root directories can be shared and mounted in fstab, after booting process : /usr, /home... In current

Re: pxeboot

2008-08-09 Thread davidcollins001
On 30/07/2008, David Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been trying to get pxeboot to work, so far with no luck. I have > a dhcp/tftp server set up and I am able to push pxeboot across the > network, so I assume that is all ok. NFS is also setup, at least I was > getting

Re: pxeboot

2008-08-02 Thread davidcollins001
Hi, Thanks both for your replies. I think the top of that article applies to me, in that I am trying to do something that I don't fully understand! I am fairly confident that I have the DHCP and TFTP setup correctly in as much as I get pxeboot on the booted machine (and I have gotten it wo

Re: pxeboot

2008-07-30 Thread Vincent Hoffman
rying to get pxeboot to work, so far with no luck. I have a dhcp/tftp server set up and I am able to push pxeboot across the network, so I assume that is all ok. NFS is also setup, at least I was getting nfs errors that I don't have anymore. I copied the contents of the 7.0 cd into the my tftpb

pxeboot

2008-07-29 Thread David Collins
l and booting over pxe/tftp when I wanted to reinstall. I started looking at the automated install, but it seemed very complex. I have been looking at the freeBSD option and it seems that the automated intall is very simple (at least from a user point of view). I have been trying to get pxeboot to

Re: Pxeboot via tftp problem

2008-05-14 Thread mohammad khatibi
> >OK unload >OK boot /boot/kernel/kernel > >cheers, >Ruben > >On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 12:12:05AM -0700, mohammad khatibi typed: >> Hi, I`m new to freebsd.and?I`m using freebsd 7.0? >> I want to load my diskless systems through pxeboot in the network so?follow &

Pxeboot via tftp problem

2008-05-10 Thread mohammad khatibi
Hi, I`m new to freebsd.and I`m using freebsd 7.0  I want to load my diskless systems through pxeboot in the network so follow the instruction that mentioned in the mail about 2 weeks ago http://www.ultradesic.com/?section=144 instruction as follow: 1.compiling pxeboot and loader using

pxeboot, TFTP loader/NFS root, NFS MOUNT RPC error: 60, timeout

2008-05-08 Thread Lorenzo Perone
On Thu Feb 7 19:00:11 UTC 2008, Rek Jed rekjed at gmail.com wrote: Subject was: pxeboot, TFTP only, NFS MOUNT RPC error: 60, timeout Hey, I've been building FreeBSD jumpstart infrastructure and it mostly works. I'm using tftp to boot off the network in to scripted sysinstall.

FreeBSD pxeboot unable to mount NFSroot

2008-03-17 Thread vincenzo romero
:5B:7E; fixed-address 192.168.16.39; filename "pxeboot"; option root-path "192.168.16.5:/export/images/00A0DDEF5B7E/freebsd7_x64"; option host-name "testclient1"; --> when we attempt to assign a FreeBSD client with an IP address within the 192.168.17.x --- it is un

Re: pxeboot, TFTP only, NFS MOUNT RPC error: 60, timeout

2008-02-08 Thread Christian Laursen
Rek Jed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've been building FreeBSD jumpstart infrastructure and it mostly > works. I'm using tftp to boot off the network in to scripted > sysinstall. I compiled the boot loader with tftp support but every > time I boot it will first try nfs, then timeout after aro

Re: pxeboot, TFTP only, NFS MOUNT RPC error: 60, timeout

2008-02-08 Thread Rek Jed
server. Then I copied the custom build loader files so that I can boot from tftp instead of nfs: boot0 boot1 boot2 loader.conf loader.rc mbr pxeboot Then I mount the stock mfsroot and copy my install.cfg over to script sysinstall. I've actually got a script that I can use to easily upda

Re: pxeboot, TFTP only, NFS MOUNT RPC error: 60, timeout

2008-02-08 Thread Erik Norgaard
Erik Norgaard wrote: Second, the loader is ignorant of which version of FreeBSD you use, it will just load whichever kernel you throw at it. I have a loader I used for 6.1, http://www.locolomo.org/pub/pxeboot/jumpstart.tgz Sorry, wrong. This is not a pxeloader. Gosh it's long time si

Re: pxeboot, TFTP only, NFS MOUNT RPC error: 60, timeout

2008-02-08 Thread Erik Norgaard
. Second, the loader is ignorant of which version of FreeBSD you use, it will just load whichever kernel you throw at it. I have a loader I used for 6.1, http://www.locolomo.org/pub/pxeboot/jumpstart.tgz Hope this helps. If you find any errors or things that have changed since I worked with this, le

Re: pxeboot, TFTP only, NFS MOUNT RPC error: 60, timeout

2008-02-07 Thread Erik Cederstrand
Rek Jed skrev: I've been playing with thinbsd (http://www.thinbsd.org/) a while back. It also boots from tftp without nfs and their boot loader works fine (boots straight away). Latest thinbsd is based on 5.4 so maybe it broke in 6.x? For a workaround I used pxeboot from thinbsd with m

Re: pxeboot, TFTP only, NFS MOUNT RPC error: 60, timeout

2008-02-07 Thread Rek Jed
I tried building it on 7.0-PRERELEASE and it builds fine for me. Haven't tested if it works yet, but will do in a moment. I can confirm that the same thing happens on 7. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: pxeboot, TFTP only, NFS MOUNT RPC error: 60, timeout

2008-02-07 Thread Rek Jed
es, I made sure that /usr/obj was empty. # cd /usr/src/sys/boot # make -DLOADER_TFTP_SUPPORT=YES Originally I was doing this on 6.2. I tried it again on a freshly installed 6.3-RELEASE just now. I made sure /usr/obj was empty and build pxeboot using the above method, then copied it over to

Re: pxeboot, TFTP only, NFS MOUNT RPC error: 60, timeout

2008-02-07 Thread Erik Norgaard
wo minutes (it cannot find nfs) and finally boot from tftp. Is there any way that I can make it boot from tftp straight away rather than wait for nfs to timeout? This is how I build the boot loader: cd /usr/src/sys/boot sudo make clean sudo make LOADER_TFTP_SUPPORT=YES sudo cp i386/pxel

Re: pxeboot, TFTP only, NFS MOUNT RPC error: 60, timeout

2008-02-07 Thread Zinevich Denis
I tried with LOADER_TFTP_SUPPORT and LOADER_NFS_SUPPORT both enabled. Also I tried with nfs disabled and tftp enabled. All was made under 6.2 stable, i386 arch. Only once i`ve got it working without timeout, but I could not repeat this. I`ll be back to this question in about one or two month wit

Re: pxeboot, TFTP only, NFS MOUNT RPC error: 60, timeout

2008-02-07 Thread Erik Cederstrand
Zinevich Denis wrote: It does not work. I`ve tried. But as I found in forums and mailing lists it randomly helps sometimes. Please don't top-post. I have a comment in src/sys/boot/i386/loader/conf.c v1.26 (RELENG_7) saying: #if defined(LOADER_NFS_SUPPORT) && defined(LOADER_TFTP_SUPPORT) #err

Re: pxeboot, TFTP only, NFS MOUNT RPC error: 60, timeout

2008-02-07 Thread Zinevich Denis
with: make -DLOADER_TFTP_SUPPORT=YES I'm not sure if it makes a difference. Anyhow, the boot loader source looks like it can't cope with both TFTP and NFS at the same time, so there might be a bug in there after all. Erik [1] http://www.locolomo.o

Re: pxeboot, TFTP only, NFS MOUNT RPC error: 60, timeout

2008-02-07 Thread Erik Cederstrand
e tutorial I have handy[1] says to compile with: make -DLOADER_TFTP_SUPPORT=YES I'm not sure if it makes a difference. Anyhow, the boot loader source looks like it can't cope with both TFTP and NFS at the same time, so there might be a bug in there after all. Erik [1] http://www.

Re: pxeboot, TFTP only, NFS MOUNT RPC error: 60, timeout

2008-02-07 Thread Zinevich Denis
than wait for nfs to timeout? This is how I build the boot loader: cd /usr/src/sys/boot sudo make clean sudo make LOADER_TFTP_SUPPORT=YES sudo cp i386/pxeldr/pxeboot /jumpstart/tftpd/boot/pxeboot.0 sudo cp i386/boot0/boot0 /jumpstart/tftpd/boot/ sudo cp i386/boot2/boot1 /jumpstart/tftpd/boot/ su

pxeboot, TFTP only, NFS MOUNT RPC error: 60, timeout

2008-02-07 Thread Rek Jed
annot find nfs) and finally boot from tftp. Is there any way that I can make it boot from tftp straight away rather than wait for nfs to timeout? This is how I build the boot loader: cd /usr/src/sys/boot sudo make clean sudo make LOADER_TFTP_SUPPORT=YES sudo cp i386/pxeldr/pxeboot /jumpstart/

Re: Diskless PXEboot crashes at kernel loading.

2007-02-19 Thread Sam Baskinger
Hi all, I can't emphasise enough how useful running a TCPDUMP on the server in question is to find out what subtle thing it is that I missed. Generally speaking a quick-crash like that is a file not being found like the modules directory or something silly like that. If you dump the NFS traffic

Re: Diskless PXEboot crashes at kernel loading.

2007-02-18 Thread Boris Samorodov
etails with the bare eye. I recorded it > with a digital camera and a snapshot of it is here: > http://www.lahaye.dds.nl/pxeboot/crash.jpg > The whole boot process in plain text goes as > follows: > -- > Attempting Boot From Intel(R

Diskless PXEboot crashes at kernel loading.

2007-02-15 Thread Rob
w.lahaye.dds.nl/pxeboot/crash.jpg The whole boot process in plain text goes as follows: -- Attempting Boot From Intel(R) Boot Agent Version 3.0.05 (PnP Device) Initializing Intel(R) Boot Agent Version 3.0.05 PXE 2.0 Build 078 (WfM 2.0), RPL V2.73 Inte

Re: PXEboot fails at kernel (text) loading

2007-02-12 Thread Bruce M. Simpson
Rob wrote: Is it OK to have a double kernel read at the last two lines? Any idea what's wrong here or what I could do to further test what the actual problem is? Argh. I had this same problem as recently as October, but I can't remember exactly what caused this. When I went back and re-did thin

Re: PXEboot fails at kernel (text) loading

2007-02-12 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 17:22:22 -0800 (PST) Rob wrote: > I have a FreeBSD 6.1 PC as the server to a PXE boot > of another Compaq Deskpro EN PC. > The Compaq PC has the option of a "Network Service > Boot" with the F12-key during BIOS boot up. On the > server, tftpd, bootpd and dhcpd are all working

PXEboot fails at kernel (text) loading

2007-02-11 Thread Rob
this: read request for //pxeboot: success read request for /boot/loader.rc: success read request for /boot/loader.4th: success read request for /boot/support.4th: success read request for /boot/beastie.4th: success read request for /boot/screen.4th: success read request for /boot/frames.4th:

pxeboot(8) NFS code breaks PIX/ASA policy

2006-09-05 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
I'm PXE booting systems using the "dhcprelay" feature on a PIX 525 running 7.1(2). The TFTP process of retrieval of /tftoboot/pxeboot works fine, however once loaded NFS mount requests to the server fail per the following messages. In my config, all layer 4->7 packet &quo

Re: pxeboot looping

2006-04-27 Thread Erik Norgaard
John Pettitt wrote: > It's fetching it - I just grabbed pxeboot from an iso image ant that one > gets a lot further so I suspect something in my build environment is not > right for the soekris box. I'm still investigating. There is a problem building pxeboot if you have /u

Re: pxeboot looping

2006-04-27 Thread John Pettitt
Erik Nørgaard wrote: > John Pettitt wrote: > >> Help! >> >> I'm trying to set up a machine to boot using pxe and have run into an >> odd problem. >> >> The box (a Soekris 4510) load pxeboot via TFTP prints a few lines of >> text then reboots

Re: pxeboot looping

2006-04-26 Thread Erik Nørgaard
John Pettitt wrote: > Help! > > I'm trying to set up a machine to boot using pxe and have run into an > odd problem. > > The box (a Soekris 4510) load pxeboot via TFTP prints a few lines of > text then reboots - the last text I see is: > >> Building the boot

pxeboot looping

2006-04-26 Thread John Pettitt
Help! I'm trying to set up a machine to boot using pxe and have run into an odd problem. The box (a Soekris 4510) load pxeboot via TFTP prints a few lines of text then reboots - the last text I see is: > Building the boot loader arguments > Relocating the loader and the BTX > St

Re: pxeboot to -Install- FreeBSD...

2006-04-07 Thread Karl Pielorz
--On 07 April 2006 11:40 +0100 Karl Pielorz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What do I need to do, to turn this 'booting FreeBSD from pxeboot' into something that will dump me into sysinstall, like booting from the CD rom? I've searched the net - but the only stuff I'v

pxeboot to -Install- FreeBSD...

2006-04-07 Thread Karl Pielorz
Hi All, I've been messing about with FreeBSD 6.1-Beta#4 recently, and I'm trying to get a server setup, so that I can pxeboot and install FreeBSD on some other servers... I've gotten dhcpd, tftp, pxeboot et'al to work - and, indeed the client machine dhcp's, px

Re: PXEboot install failing to load kernel

2006-04-05 Thread Erik Nørgaard
from download, then you should be fine. > I have downloaded the i386 bootonly iso and I have followed portions > of several guides which has got me as far as tftp serving the pxeboot. > I assume the dhcp and tftp parts are working ok as the laptop gets > hold of pxeboot fine but then fa

PXEboot install failing to load kernel

2006-04-05 Thread Chris
cting floppy images etc). I have downloaded the i386 bootonly iso and I have followed portions of several guides which has got me as far as tftp serving the pxeboot. I assume the dhcp and tftp parts are working ok as the laptop gets hold of pxeboot fine but then fails to load the kernel. I have trie

Re: scripting sysinstall for pxeboot

2006-02-12 Thread Ceri Davies
On 11 Feb 2006, at 04:30, Christopher Cowart wrote: On a not-a-show-stopper note, is there any way to get around specifying the hostname and/or net device? I'd rather not specify the hostname so that I can have one generic script for many machines. Further, what if a some other machine has a

scripting sysinstall for pxeboot

2006-02-10 Thread Christopher Cowart
Hello- I'm working on a project to netboot servers and perform a custom installation of FreeBSD. I have pxeboot working with tftp, providing an mfs image over the network. sysinstall runs as init and attempts to follow my install.cfg. However, when running my mediaSetFTP command, sysin

Re: pxeboot fails to load acpi.ko

2006-02-08 Thread Andrew Bogecho
Hi, Have you had a look in /boot/device.hints? hint.acpi.0.disabled="1" I at the moment maintain 2 diskless images, the one for older hardware has the above setting to disable acpi(machine would hang with it enabled). I believe setting it to "0" or commenting it out could help you. A. > Hey- >

pxeboot fails to load acpi.ko

2006-02-07 Thread Christopher Cowart
Hey- I've been working on a project to automate FreeBSD installations over the network, using PXE boot capabilities. I've been following the howtos, as documented starting here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/pxe/index.html and http://www.daemonsecurity.com/pxe/jumpstart.html

Re: Pxeboot for nfs installation woes.

2005-12-07 Thread Christopher McGee
, I can do the nfs installation without fail. I have setup pxeboot, and if I am far enough along that when I boot off the network, it tftp's the files it needs, boots through menus, loads the generic kernel, mounts an nfs root, then errors. The errors are "exec /sbin/init: error

Re: Pxeboot for nfs installation woes.

2005-12-07 Thread Erik Norgaard
installation without fail. I have setup pxeboot, and if I am far enough along that when I boot off the network, it tftp's the files it needs, boots through menus, loads the generic kernel, mounts an nfs root, then errors. The errors are "exec /sbin/init: error 70". One error for eac

Pxeboot for nfs installation woes.

2005-12-07 Thread Christopher McGee
have setup pxeboot, and if I am far enough along that when I boot off the network, it tftp's the files it needs, boots through menus, loads the generic kernel, mounts an nfs root, then errors. The errors are "exec /sbin/init: error 70". One error for each attempt at an init file.

FreeBSD 5.3/5.4 - pxeboot hosting on em0 Intel 82540EM

2005-05-28 Thread David P. Discher
Netboot and Installing FreeBSD over em0 GigE link I am having an issue with pxeboot/BTX loader mounting/contacting a TFTP server or NFS server that is hosted on machine with an Intel GigE em0 ethernet card. pxeboot comes over (via 82540EM bios), loader comes over, but the load says it

Re: Freebsd pxeboot problem

2005-05-26 Thread Sunil Sunder Raj
communication between the rom pxe and the dhcp server. The last 3 lines are the communication between the downloaded pxeboot and the dhcp server. The downloaded pxeboot does not seem to retain the ip address offered by DHCP. Any don't know where it got 192.168.102.110 (192.168.102.1) from.

Re: Freebsd pxeboot problem

2005-05-24 Thread Nathan Kinkade
On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 04:52:18PM +, Sunil Sunder Raj wrote: > Hi, > Was trying to install freebsd 5.3 via pxeboot. The Dhcp server leases the > Ip address, the tftp server is located fine and the pxeboot file gets > downloaded at the client end. But this pxeboot is not gettin

Re: Freebsd pxeboot problem

2005-05-24 Thread Sunil Sunder Raj
202.54.1.30, 202.54.1.18; option domain-name "xyz.com"; default-lease-time 2592000; max-lease-time 2592000; next-server 10.0.0.10; server-name "xyz.com"; server-identifier 10.0.0.10; option root-path "/usr/local/exports/freebsd5.4"; filename "boot/pxeboot&qu

Re: Freebsd pxeboot problem

2005-05-23 Thread Eric Anderson
Sunil Sunder Raj wrote: Hi, Was trying to install freebsd 5.3 via pxeboot. The Dhcp server leases the Ip address, the tftp server is located fine and the pxeboot file gets downloaded at the client end. But this pxeboot is not getting the proper server path and gateway ip. It is always

Freebsd pxeboot problem

2005-05-23 Thread Sunil Sunder Raj
Hi, Was trying to install freebsd 5.3 via pxeboot. The Dhcp server leases the Ip address, the tftp server is located fine and the pxeboot file gets downloaded at the client end. But this pxeboot is not getting the proper server path and gateway ip. It is always falling to the default

Solved: Failure to initialise network infterface after pxeboot

2004-11-25 Thread Erik Norgaard
Error in the memory file system caused the problem. Cheers, Erik -- Ph: +34.666334818 web: www.locolomo.org S/MIME Certificate: http://www.locolomo.org/crt/2004071206.crt Subject ID: A9:76:7A:ED:06:95:2B:8D:48:97:CE:F2:3F:42:C8:F2:22:DE:4C:B9 Fingerprint: 4A:E8:63:

Failure to initialise network infterface after pxeboot

2004-11-24 Thread Erik Norgaard
device 15.0 pci0 vr0: Ethernet address: 00:40:63:d4:89:72 miibus0: on vr0 vr1: port 0xe800-0xe8ff mem 0xde002000-0xde0020ff irq 11 at device 18.0 pci0 vr1: Ethernet address: 00:40:63:d4:89:71 miibus1: on vr1 VIA supports pxeboot so I wanted to use this with dhcp/tftp/ftp to reinstall the

Solved: PXEBoot fails in last stage

2004-11-24 Thread Erik Norgaard
Erik Norgaard wrote: I have set up a server (dhcp/tftp/ftp, no nfs configured) as a jumpstart server for pxeboot and compiled kernel with -DLOADER_TFTP_SUPPORT=YES. The client machine is a VIA EPIA CL1000 with a 60GB hdd with a FreeBSD 4.9, I want to reinstall to get 5.3. Kernel is compiled

PXEBoot fails in last stage

2004-11-24 Thread Erik Norgaard
Hi, I have set up a server (dhcp/tftp/ftp, no nfs configured) as a jumpstart server for pxeboot and compiled kernel with -DLOADER_TFTP_SUPPORT=YES. The client machine is a VIA EPIA CL1000 with a 60GB hdd with a FreeBSD 4.9, I want to reinstall to get 5.3. Kernel is compiled with "option

Strange problem with pxeboot

2004-11-24 Thread Erik Norgaard
Hi, Sorry - I have no more descriptive subject because this is really strange: I have set up a server to serve clients booting with pxeboot and fetching kernel and a memory disk root file system with tftp. So far so good. What is strange is this: 1) If the local harddrive (which contains an old

freebsd pxeboot problem

2004-07-21 Thread Liam Hudson
Hi all, Am having trouble with pxeboot on freebsd 5.1. Am following procedure at http://www.tnpi.biz/computing/freebsd/pxe-netboot.shtml (relevant bit pasted at bottom). This procedure states to create an empty 25Mb file using dd, make a fs out of it (disklabel/newfs/mdconfig), then rsync

Using pxeboot for installation (bug in pxeboot - tftp)

2004-04-23 Thread Kasper Fock
Hi I have used pxeboot to load freebsd 5.2.1 through tftp. It seems as the tftp client in pxeboot fails to send an data acknowledge after the last datapacket in each tftp transfer. (not very nice for server which resends last datapacket several times) BTW: Does anybody know a way to specify

pxeboot

2003-08-21 Thread Jonathan T Wang
I'm interested in installing FreeBSD using PXEBoot. Unfortunately, I don't have access to a FreeBSD machine to get the pxeboot boot loader - does anyone know where I can find it? Thanks, Jonathan Wang ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing

question about pxeboot.

2003-03-29 Thread jason
a dhcp address.. It appears to tftp download the pxeboot file (which is a big ole linux initrd created with http://pxes.sourceforge.net) then after a short while it bombs with tftp: too many packages exiting intel boot agent I searched and it seems that there is a 512K limitation for booting