FreeBSD Jumpstart Guide / PXE Docs (TFTP ONLY)

[Brian A. Seklecki]

> The problem with NFS/TFTP you mention have existed for years, I reported 
> it in 2004: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/74352
> 
> The workaround/solution is documented in the guide I wrote:
> 
> a) Compile kernel w/o NFS support and load these as modules after boot

Actually, now that I'm working it more closely (took a day to hack the
Dell PE 1950 problems), it would seem that your problem has to do with a
post-kernel load issue of finding the NFS root.

My problem is that even when you compile the pxeboot(8) binary w/o NFS
support, it still tries to do NFS (depending on DHCP variables, it
seems).

The other problem is that the NFS code sets the destination UDP port of
the NFS Mount request to port "0", which causes my PIX Firewall to,
well, you know...

~BAS

> b) Specify in loader.conf that the root device is mfs
> 
> I cleaned up the guide I wrote and I posted here some months ago if 
> anyone would take a look at it:
> 
>     http://www.daemonsecurity.com/pub/pxeboot/
> 
> Cheers, Erik
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Brian A. Seklecki <bseklecki at collaborativefusion.com>
Collaborative Fusion, Inc.