PXE booting a 5.4-RC2 system ...

[Jose M Rodriguez]

El Monday 18 April 2005 01:34, Joe Greco escribió:
> So I'm playing with 5.4-RC2.
>
> I can get the system to PXE boot into a normal full base system
> environment just fine, all the way to multiuser.
>
> However, for system installs, we've historically PXE booted the boot
> floppy images and then proceeded to do NFS or FTP based installs.
>
> So I set off to do this with 5.4-RC2.  I pulled the contents out of
> boot.flp, kern1.flp, and kern2.flp and stuffed them all on one of our
> boot servers.
>
> /boot/5.4X-i386-load 358 # ls -al
> total 3716
> drwxr-xr-x   4 root  wheel         512 Apr 17 18:14 .
> drwxr-xr-x  10 root  wheel         512 Apr 17 18:07 ..
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root  operator      512 Apr 10 04:26 .snap
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel      138998 Apr 10 04:26 acpi.ko.gz
> drwxr-xr-x   3 root  wheel         512 Apr 10 04:26 boot
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel     1425408 Apr 10 04:26 kernel.gz.aa
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel     1060816 Apr 10 04:26 kernel.gz.ab
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel       16384 Apr 10 04:26 kernel.gz.boot
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel          91 Apr 10 04:26 kernel.gz.split
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel     1081726 Apr 10 04:26 mfsroot.gz
> -rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel          69 Apr 17 18:10 notes
>
> Same setup works fine with /boot/5.4X-i386-pxe1, which is just the
> entire 5.4-RC2 distribution extracted to that directory.
>
> Going back to the above setup:
>
> The client PC, a Gigabyte 7VM400-RZ with an AMD 2700 XP and 512MB
> RAM, a CD drive, and an Adaptec 2940U2W controller, starts loading
> the PXE loader just fine.
>
> PXE Loader 1.00
>
> Building the boot loader arguments
> Relocating the loader and the BTX
> Starting the BTX loader
>
> BTX loader 1.00 BTX is version 1.01
> Console: internal video/keyboard
> BIOS drive A: is disk0
>
> PXE version 2.1, real mode entry point @9e2b:00f6
> BIOS 640kB/490432kB available memory
>
> FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1
> (root at harlow.cse.buffalo.edu, Sun Apr 10 04:50:34 UTC 2005)
> pxe_open: server addr: XXXXXXXXXXXX
> pxe_open: server path: /boot/5.4X-i386-load
> pxe_open: gateway ip: XXXXXXXXXXXXX
> Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf
> panic: free: guard1 fail @ 0x54a7c from
> /usr/src/lib/libstand/gzipfs.c:192 --> Press a key on the console to
> reboot <--
>
> So I figure maybe it's a bug or maybe I need to tweak something. 
> Anyone have a clue which is the correct answer?
>

try what is used in the CD install boot: mount a kernel and use a 
mfsroot.  This maybe even more easy to setup.  Take a look into boot/ 
of CD1.

--
  josemi


> Thanks,
>
> ... JG