Erm sorry im a bit confused now! Where does NFS come into this?

If I understand the process then pxeboot is sent by TFTP which then
request bsd.rd from the same TFTP source and then bootstraps bsd.rd
once it is downloaded...

Or am I missing something? pretty sure NFS is not involved.


On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 1:47 PM, Bernd Walter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 11:30:30PM +0000, Adam Retter wrote:
>  > On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 11:18 PM, Stuart Henderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> wrote:
>  > > On 2008/02/20 23:08, Adam Retter wrote:
>  > >  > The console output over COM0 from the net4801 is below, but basically
>  > >  > I have no idea what "Unknown error: code 60" (from pxeboot?) means?
>  > >
>  > >  60 is ETIMEDOUT, according to OpenBSD's intro(2). iirc the normal OS
>  > >  error codes are used in the boot loader. are you aware of any network
>  > >  problems, bad cables or duplex mismatch maybe?
>  >
>  > Erm nope im not aware of any problems, the cables are all new and work
>  > for network traffic otherwise. The net4801 is connected to a Netgear
>  > 8-port 10/100/1000Mbit switch and the FreeBSD machine is also
>  > connected to the switch. Using the same physical setup with its
>  > current OpenBSD 3.7 operating system, I am able to SSH into the
>  > net4801 and browse the web etc (its used as a F/W and Router).
>  >
>  > Hmm, anything I can do to find out why its timing out?
>
>  You already tftp'ed the loader and just NFS is failing, so you have to
>  search for NFS related problems.
>  Is is correct that your nfs path is named tftp:/bsd ?
>  I don't know if the OpenBSD loader can handle DNS requests, so you
>  might want to try with an IP address as well.
>
>  --
>  B.Walter                http://www.bwct.de      http://www.fizon.de
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