Re: etherboot + pxeboot ?

Eric Anderson wrote:
> On 02/26/07 15:13, Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko wrote:
> >On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 14:11 -0600, Eric Anderson wrote:
> >>Has anyone successfully used etherboot to load pxeboot via tftp (or
> >>NFS), and then NFS boot a FreeBSD -CURRENT box?
> >
> >I did install -CURRENT snapshot using on-board ROM of my Intel PRO/1000,
> >since my laptop does not have optical drive. I realize that it is not
> >quite what you are looking for, but if you think any server-side
> >configuration bits could be useful to you, please, let me know.
> 
> 
> Nah, I can successfully NFS boot a -CURRENT box just fine.  It's only 
> when using etherboot that it doesn't work (it gives an "Unable to load" 
> error).  Loading the pxeboot file via pxelinux ends up with a BTX halted 
> crash that I don't understand.

I just setup my LAN to do this within the last week.  I received
the same error when trying to etherboot pxeboot, with or without
PXE emulation enabled in etherboot.

I didn't really try to figure out why since it works fine just
etherbooting a kernel.  Half a dozen machines here with old NICs are
etherbooting current over NFS just fine.  No pxeboot or tftp,
though.

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