pxe-install on FreeBSD 5.3

Bjoern A. Zeeb bzeeb-lists at lists.zabbadoz.net
Tue Oct 19 22:20:14 PDT 2004


On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Tim Dettloff wrote:

Hi,

> On 5.2.1-RELEASE i could just copy /boot from the boot-only iso to my
> tftp-sever, compile pxeboot with LOADER_TFTP_SUPPORT=YES and I was
> ready to pxeinstall.
>
> When I do the same with 5.3-RC1 the kernel wants to mount root from
> NFS instead of /dev/md0.
>
> What is the reason for this change?

I don't know but I had posted a solution earlier this year. If I
rememeber correctly it had been setting
	set vfs.root.mountfrom="ufs:/dev/md0c"
in boot/loader.rc.


> In addition it would really be nice if the iso contained a
> pxeboot build with LOADER_TFTP_SUPPORT=YES in addition to the
> standard one. I imagine it is only a couple of lines extra in the makefile..?

+1 from me ;)

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