On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 03:28:52PM +0000, Adam Retter wrote: > Erm sorry im a bit confused now! Where does NFS come into this?
I was under the impression that OpenBSD is using NFS as FreeBSD does. FreeBSD uses TFTP to fetch the loader and the loader is using NFS for loading the FORTH scripts, kernel, modules, etc... > 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. Sorry for the confusion. > 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list Soekris-tech@lists.soekris.com http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
