using md-mounted ISO as NFS root for PXE booting and installing

[Andrew N. Below]

Hello.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rong-en Fan" <grafan at gmail.com>
To: "Andrew N. Below" <defan at zenon.net>
Cc: <freebsd-stable at freebsd.org>
Sent: 11 января 2007 г. 20:02
Subject: Re: using md-mounted ISO as NFS root for PXE booting and installing


> [...]
> > All is fine if we are booting into 4.11 (root mounted from MFS,
> > sysintall runs and we able to install OS to local disks via NFS).
> >
> > But in case of 6.2-RC2 root mounted from NFS, not MFS:
>
> Does add
>
> vfs.root.mountfrom="ufs:/dev/md0c"
>
> in boot/loader.conf from CD help?
> Of course, you have to copy the boot/ directory out of cd.

My goal is to do ISO-only boot via PXE, so I don't want to extract anything
from ISO. :)

Anyway, this solution works in loader prompt in 5.x and 6.x also.

Thanks!

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Andrew N. Below