6.1-R/amd64: PXE boot can't handle .gz mfsroot?

[Dmitry Morozovsky]

On Tue, 9 May 2006, Bj?rn K?nig wrote:

BK> > ${SUBJ} says almost all. PXEboot leads to 
BK> > Can't work out which disk we are booting from.
BK> > 
BK> > error.
BK> > 
BK> > Ungzipping /boot/mfsroot.gz helps
BK> 
BK> Hello Dmitry,
BK> 
BK> I can't report any problems regarding this with 6.0-RELEASE. Can you show me
BK> 
BK>   find /tftproot -type f

pxeboot only

BK>   cat /tftpdroot/boot/loader.conf

none

BK> Did you compiled pxeboot without gzip support accidentally?

No, I did mount release ISO via md as NFS root for given machine:

host gwp {
  hardware ethernet 00:16:35:***;
  filename "pxeboot";
  option root-path "192.168.200.1:/pxe/amd64/6.1-R/";
  option routers 192.168.200.1;
}


Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
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