RELENG_7 pxeboot fails on SuperMicro 6012

[Marco Walraven]

On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 04:12:49AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 12:30:00PM +0200, Marco Walraven wrote:
> > I ran into the following problem trying to pxeboot RELENG_7 on a SuperMicro 6012 system. RELENG_6 just works fine and the same RELENG_7 release pxeboots fine when I use a VMware host.
> > 
> >  Can't work out which disk we are booting from.
> >  Guessed BIOS device 0xffffff not fund by probes, defaulting to disk0:
> > 
> >  can't load 'kernel' 
> > 
> > None of the setting I have specified in /boot/loader.conf especially vfs.root.mountfrom="ufs:/dev/md0c" pop up when asking for the configured variables.
> > 
> > Any clues ?
> 
> http://jdc.parodius.com/freebsd/pxeboot_serial_install.html
> 
> Be sure to read this, and see Item #10.

Thanks for the quick hint Jeremy; booting on that old piece of hardware did indeed succeed using an uncompressed mfsroot.

Marco

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