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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