Diskless with 12.x not anymore possible

[Roderick]

Thanks!

I have also an Intel Atom (amd64) that boots FreeBSD 12.2.

The problem is with a AMD Geode LX800 (i386), without any drive.

It seems problems arise for some systems, for other not.

Rod.

On Fri, 29 Jan 2021, Daniel Feenberg wrote:

>
>
> On Fri, 29 Jan 2021, Roderick wrote:
>
>> 
>> Is there someone booting diskless?
>
> We boot a dozen FreeBSD systems diskless to 12.0.  I am no longer involved 
> but I asked collegue Alex Aminoff who has done our recent upgrades. Here is 
> his report:
>
>  We have not had any trouble booting 12.0 diskless. What we did is take
>  our 11.3 installation and upgraded it using freebsd-update . We had to
>  do it carefully using the -b <basedir> flag.
>
>  In out boot directory, we have:
>
>  -r-xr-xr-x  3 root  wheel  372736 Dec 23 12:02 boot/loader_lua
>  -r-xr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  488960 Dec 23 12:02 boot/loader_lua.efi
>  -r--r--r--  1 root  wheel    2402 Dec 23 12:02 boot/lua/loader.lua
>
> Hope this is of some help. We do like booting diskless and want to thank 
> whoever at FreeBSD keeps it an option for us.
>
>> 
>> Since the introducction of the wonderfull, coll lua to the loader I
>> get the error:
>> 
>> ERROR: cannot open /boot/lua/loader.lua: no such file or directory
>> 
>> With 12.0 I managed once to boot using the pxeboot of 11.2, but that
>> does not work anymore.
>> 
>> Do someone boot diskless?
>> 
>> I thank for any hint
>> Rod.
>> 
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