FreeBSD-6.2, 7.0-BETA1 on X60

[Balgansuren Batsukh]

Hello All,

After I follow below instruction it boot kernel, but then give me error says 
/etc/fstab not found etc.,

I will attach it next email.

Balgaa

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko" <gaijin.k at gmail.com>
To: "Balgansuren Batsukh" <balgaa at micom.mn>
Cc: <freebsd-stable at freebsd.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2007 12:19 PM
Subject: Re: FreeBSD-6.2, 7.0-BETA1 on X60


>
> On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 21:31 +0800, Balgansuren Batsukh wrote:
>> Hello All,
>>
>> I tried to install FreeBSD on X60 using PXE boot, but unsuccessfully 
>> finish
>> my attempt.
>>
>> When it start PXE boot it get IP address from DHCP, download PXE boot 
>> file
>> from TFTP server,
>> then trying to load kernel image from TFTP server.
>>
>> After 10-20 minutes it give me error message "can't load kernel", I tried
>> many times load boot/kernel/kernel, but same result.
>>
>> I guess PXE boot read much longer time to load kernel file and suddenly 
>> give
>> me error message.
>>
>> I followed instruction on http://www.hack.org/mc/freebsd-x60.html
>>
>> I made X60---->LAN switch---->TFTP/DHCP/NFS server and even tried
>> X60---cross-over cable---->TFTP/DHCP/NFS server.
>>
>> Is there any suggestion?
>
> I have built my X60 from such a setup and then used it as the "FixIt"
> environment more then a few times. Here are relevant bits from the
> server (watch out for the line wrapping):
>
> === /usr/local/etc/dhcpd.conf (I am using isc-dhcp3-server-3.0.5_2)
> option domain-name "rabbitslawn.verizon.net";
> option domain-name-servers rabbitslawn.verizon.net;
>
> default-lease-time 600;
> max-lease-time 7200;
>
> authoritative;
>
> ddns-update-style none;
>
> log-facility local7;
>
> server-name "twinhead";
> server-identifier 10.0.3.236;
> next-server 10.0.3.236;
>
> subnet 10.0.3.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
>  range 10.0.3.33 10.0.3.64;
>  option routers 10.0.3.242;
>  option domain-name-servers 10.0.3.242;
>  option root-path "/SHARED/tftpboot";
>  filename "boot/pxeboot";
> }
>
> === /etc/exports (excerpt)
> /SHARED  -alldirs
>
> === /etc/inetd.conf (excerpt)
> tftp    dgram   udp     wait    root    /usr/libexec/tftpd      tftpd -u
> sunny -l -s /SHARED/tftpboot
>
> === /etc/rc.conf (excerpt)
> nfs_server_enable="YES"
> rpcbind_enable="YES"
>
> === /SHARED/tftpboot
> Contains fairly old (February 2007) snapshot of then 7-CURRENT with two
> modifications
>
> === /SHARED/tftpboot/boot/loader.rc
> echo Loading Kernel...
> load /boot/kernel/kernel
> echo Loading mfsroot...
> load -t mfs_root /mfsroot
> echo booting...
> echo \007\007
> echo initializing h0h0magic...
> set vfs.root.mountfrom="ufs:/dev/md0c"
> boot
>
> === /SHARED/tftpboot/mfsroot
> Is the decompressed version of /SHARED/tftpboot/boot/mfsroot.gz.
>
> I can confirm that stopping NFS on the server will give the symptoms
> roughly corresponding to the ones you are describing, so the first thing
> I would recommend checking is the ability to mount your equivalent of
> the "/SHARED/tftpboot" above.
>
> Hopefully this is all I have done to get this to work -- I have picked
> most of it from someone's web page, but I could not find original URL
> ATM.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Balgaa
>>
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> -- 
> Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko <gaijin.k at gmail.com>
>
>
>
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