PXE Booting
Lawrence Farr
bsd-current at epcdirect.co.uk
Thu Jun 3 06:56:58 PDT 2004
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bjoern A. Zeeb [mailto:bzeeb-lists at lists.zabbadoz.net]
> Sent: 01 June 2004 12:59
> To: Lawrence Farr
> Cc: freebsd-current at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: PXE Booting
>
> On Tue, 1 Jun 2004, Lawrence Farr wrote:
>
> > I've been doing a "make release" every night and using it to
> > PXE boot from with 4.x for a good few years with no issues.
> >
> > Now that I'm doing the same with 5.x, I'm struggling a bit
> > as to how to set it up. I can pick up the PXE image without
> > a problem, and if I set the root-path to a folder containing
> > the contents of a 5.2.1-RELEASE CD I can boot off it without
> > a problem, but booting from a folder containing the contents
> > of cd1 created by "make release" complains of not being able
> > to find init. Anyone else doing this who can point me in the
> > right direction?
>
> multiple solutions are possible I think:
>
> 1) add
> LOADER_TFTP_SUPPORT= YES
> to your make.conf (that make.conf must be copied into the
> chroot for your make release)
>
> 2) your kernel currently tries to load / from NFS root.
> when booting and seeing beasti escape to boot shell and
> say
> set vfs.root.mountfrom="ufs:/dev/md0c"
>
>
> both should when properly load mfrsroot.gz from boot/ of the
> cd1 and start sysinstall.
>
> HTH
>
> --
> Bjoern A. Zeeb bzeeb at
> Zabbadoz dot NeT
>
OK, setting vfs.root.mountfrom="ufs:/dev/md0c" makes it all work.
*but*
If I use the kernel folder from 5.2.1-RELEASE, and:
mfsroot_load="YES"
mfsroot_type="mfs_root"
mfsroot_name="/boot/mfsroot"
In loader.conf, I don't have to set vfs.root.mountfrom, but the
GENERIC kernel built by my make release tries to mount from NFS
unless I set it.
What's different about the CD kernel and a "make release" kernel?
Is there any way of setting vfs.root.mountfrom in loader.conf?
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