pxeboot

[Vincent Hoffman]

David Collins wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am not sure if this is the correct list to post this to, and if it
> isn't please could you point me to where it should go.
>
> I have recently turned to freeBSD and so far I love it. I have a small
> laptop that I use for playing around and general fiddling. I was using
> the Debian netinstall and booting over pxe/tftp when I wanted to
> reinstall. I started looking at the automated install, but it seemed
> very complex. I have been looking at the freeBSD option and it seems
> that the automated intall is very simple (at least from a user point
> of view).
>
> I have been trying to get pxeboot to work, so far with no luck. I have
> a dhcp/tftp server set up and I am able to push pxeboot across the
> network, so I assume that is all ok. NFS is also setup, at least I was
> getting nfs errors that I don't have anymore. I copied the contents of
> the 7.0 cd into the my tftpboot folder and changed the contents for
> loader.conf and loader.rc according to here
> http://www.locolomo.org/pub/pxeboot/pxeboot.html and
> http://www.tnpi.biz/computing/freebsd/pxe-netboot.shtml and so far I
> am able to get a prompt come up but I am unable to get any further. As
> soon as I enter anything the computer immediately reboots so i am
> unable to see any error messages. I assume the paths are relative to
> the tftp server. Can anyone give me quick example to get me off to a
> start.
>
>   
http://jdc.parodius.com/freebsd/pxeboot_serial_install.html is a pretty 
good guide, you can ignore the bits about rebuilding pxeboot as your not 
using a serial console but the mfs_root bug could be what you are hitting.


Vince
> Thanks
>
> David Collins
>
>
> Here are my config files, I think that is all of them
> # cat /etc/exports
> /usr/tftpboot/freeBSD7.0 -alldirs -ro -maproot=root
>
> # cat /usr/local/etc/dhcpd.conf
> default-lease-time 600;
> max-lease-time 7200;
> authoritative;
>
> ddns-update-style none;
>
> subnet 192.168.2.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
>   range 192.168.2.8 192.168.2.15;
>   #filename "/pxelinux.0";
>   filename "/freeBSD7.0/boot/pxeboot";
>   next-server 192.168.2.4;
>   option routers 192.168.2.4;
>   option root-path "/usr2/tftpboot/freeBSD7.0";
> }
>
> # grep tftp /etc/inetd.conf
> tftp    dgram   udp     wait    root    /usr/libexec/tftpd      tftpd
> -l -s /usr/tftpboot
>
> #cat /usr/tftpboot/freeBSD7.0/boot/loader.rc
>  echo Loading Kernel...
>  set choice=freebsd-ide
>  read -t 5 -p "Type in your selection EXACTLY: " choice
>  include /boot/loader.rc-$choice
>  read -t 5 -p "Type in your selection EXACTLY: " choice
>  read -t 5 -p "Type in your selection EXACTLY: " choice
>  load /boot/kernel/kernel
>  load linux.ko
>  echo \007\007
>  set vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/md0c"
>
> #cat /usr/tftpboot/freeBSD7.0/boot/loader.conf
>  init_path="/stand/sysinstall"
>  rootfs_load="YES"
>  rootfs_name="/boot/mfsroot"
>  rootfs_type="mfs_root"
>  vfs.root.mountfrom="ufs:/dev/md0c"
>  autoboot_delay=5
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