PXE Boot FreeBSD with Etherboot
Danny Braniss
danny at cs.huji.ac.il
Fri Aug 12 07:26:30 GMT 2005
> > It seems there are some problems with using pxeboot in combination with
> > the network boot code from the etherboot project. I have tried many
> > combinations of options with no success. The result is very similar to
> > the following photo I found:
> >
> > http://photos.night-shade.org.uk/photo.php?photo=6364
> >
> > I have tried it both on my local machine and in vmware with the same
> > result. It seems that somehow etherboot is not setting up the
> > environment the way pxeboot expects it too. Now the native pxe boot
> > code in vmware does load pxeboot correctly and I have successfully
> > booted freebsd in vmware, however I can't get the pxe boot code on my
> > network card to load at all, hence my need for etherboot. Also, both
> > pxeboot from FreeBSD 4.11 and 6.0-BETA2 crash the same way. I'm
> > assuming this is really a bug in etherboot, but I'm not sure how to get
> > a crash dump to play with. With vmware, it seems like I should be able
> > to save a memory image to examine, but I'm not sure how to do that.
> > Any ideas on a fix for this?
>
> Just my experience. I never handled to successfully pxeboot FreeBSD.
pxeboot works fine! i have some 50 hosts pxeboot'ing that say so.
it's etherboot loading pxeboot that does not work.
danny
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