Re: pxeboot does not work on Sun X4540

> Attila Nagy wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm trying to boot FreeBSD 8-CURRENT on a Sun X4540 (2xquad core 
> > Opteron, 64 GB memory, 48 SATA disks (in fact 47, the 48th is a write 
> > optimized SSD, because this box is a 7210 OpenStorage "appliance", 
> > running OpenSolaris) on LSI controllers, nvidia NIC) from our boot 
> > server without success.
> >
> > The PXE on the NIC downloads pxeboot with TFTP, but then gets stuck at 
> > loading the kernel:
> > http://people.fsn.hu/~bra/freebsd/20090107-freebsd-x4540/Screenshot-6.png
> >
> > pxeboot is configured to load the kernel via NFS (the default) and 
> > according to the tcpdump output, the client (X4540) issues an NFS 
> > GETPORT call and gets the response from the NFS server and then 
> > nothing else happens.
> >
> > I've tried with LOADER_TFTP_SUPPORT=YES and the result is the same, 
> > the only difference is that the machine stops sending packets after 
> > the first TFTP read request (for /boot/boot.4th.split), which doesn't 
> > exist, so the server sends the answer and then nothing comes back from 
> > the X4540 box.
> >
> > It seems that it gets to send exactly one packet, then freezes.
> >
> > What else should be done to debug this problem?
> >
> > Thanks,
> BTW, the last FreeBSD 8-CURRENT snapshot from december boots fine (at 
> least I can get to sysinstall, I haven't yet tried installation, because 
> I wouldn't like to touch the boot drives, which house the OpenSolaris 
> image -that's why I want to boot from the net).
> 

older pxeboot - pre interrupt handling fixes - work ok, so you can use that 
instead.

danny

> I would like to do a FreeBSD vs. OpenSolaris comparison on this machine, 
> so please help. :)
> 
> Thanks,
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