etherboot + pxeboot ?

[Eric Anderson]

On 02/26/07 15:13, Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 14:11 -0600, Eric Anderson wrote:
>> Has anyone successfully used etherboot to load pxeboot via tftp (or
>> NFS), and then NFS boot a FreeBSD -CURRENT box?
> 
> I did install -CURRENT snapshot using on-board ROM of my Intel PRO/1000,
> since my laptop does not have optical drive. I realize that it is not
> quite what you are looking for, but if you think any server-side
> configuration bits could be useful to you, please, let me know.
> 


Nah, I can successfully NFS boot a -CURRENT box just fine.  It's only 
when using etherboot that it doesn't work (it gives an "Unable to load" 
error).  Loading the pxeboot file via pxelinux ends up with a BTX halted 
crash that I don't understand.


Eric