Solved: PXEBoot fails in last stage

Erik Norgaard norgaard at locolomo.org
Wed Nov 24 12:47:38 PST 2004


Erik Norgaard wrote:
> I have set up a server (dhcp/tftp/ftp, no nfs configured) as a jumpstart 
> server for pxeboot and compiled kernel with -DLOADER_TFTP_SUPPORT=YES.
> The client machine is a VIA EPIA CL1000 with a 60GB hdd with a FreeBSD 
> 4.9, I want to reinstall to get 5.3.
> 
> Kernel is compiled with "option BOOTP" and support for memory filesystem 
> as root device.

Aparently the loader does not respect the value of rootfs, it _will_ try 
nfs if it can! I removed all options related to nfs in the kernel 
configuration file - it was _not_ enough to remove "option nfs_root".

I guess this should result in a bug report.

Cheers, Erik

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