Mount freebsd file systems during pxe boot using NFS

Mariusz Zaborski oshogbo at FreeBSD.org
Tue Jul 8 12:37:16 UTC 2014


Great I'm happy that everything is working :)

Cheers,
Mariusz

On 8 July 2014 14:20, amine tay <amine.tay91 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Yes it is now. Actually it was just a matter of compatipility.
> I was using a vmware virtual machine, and FreeBSD 9.1 requires drivers for
> vmware network interface (vmxnet) to be installed so...
>
> Thanks.
> Amine
>
>
> 2014-07-05 21:35 GMT+02:00 Mariusz Zaborski <oshogbo at freebsd.org>:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Did you mange to get it work?
>> What vm do you use?
>>
>> Check out also this: http://oshogbo.vexillium.org/blog/28/
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Marisuz
>>
>> On 24 June 2014 15:43, amine tay <amine.tay91 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hello, everyone ,
>> >
>> > I have a little problem that took me 3 days of work and still no result
>> > or
>> > solution.
>> > I am trying to pxe boot a FreeBSD 9.2 i386 on a virtual machine.
>> > Everything
>> > is ok on my DHCP , TFTP and NFS server.
>> >
>> > DHCP :
>> > option root-path is set
>> >
>> > TFTP:
>> > my pxebot file
>> >
>> > NFS :
>> > /etc/exports file is filled with tha path of the image
>> >
>> > Once the client is booted it hangs when trying to mount system files as
>> > it
>> > is shown in the image attached.
>> >
>> > Also in my FreeBSD kernel I have : option NFS_ROOT
>> > I don't know what's the problem. and I commented out the /etc/fstab
>> >
>> > /etc/fstab (of FreeBSD image)
>> > #/dev/iso9660/FREEBSD_INSTALL  / cd9660 ro 0 0
>> >
>> > Thank you in advance for your help.
>> >
>> > Amine.
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