On 04/26/10 05:37, Daniel Braniss wrote:
On 04/25/10 23:28, Daniel Braniss wrote:
Hi Danny,
On 04/25/10 21:39, Daniel Braniss wrote:
Hi Danny and all,
[snip]
mount the NFS share to pull the kernel from. I've verified that the NFS
configuration works, both using a separate physical machine and by
firing up the VM I'm trying to PXE boot with the fixit CD and mounting
the share from the fixit shell i.e. the problem seems to be localised to
the boot loader.
[snip]
have you tried your pxe/diskless outside vmware?
Yes, see above. The NFS configuration works perfectly when used inside a
vm running FreeBSD or from a physical machine. It only fails when I try
to PXE boot the vm.
i'll refrase question:
can you pxe boot a diskless client via nfs?
the 'above' just says that you can nfs access, which was not my question.
Sorry, I didn't explain myself very well. By "using a separate physical
machine", I meant that I can successfully PXE boot the machine on my LAN
which pulls the kernel over NFS and happily mounts root over NFS i.e.
answer to your question is yes. The second part of my testing was using
the mount_nfs command manually on the command line of a vbox vm which
was booted into the fixit cd's fixit shell.
Everything points to my config being good and a weird loader related
issue. Assuming you are able to successfully pxe boot FreeBSD could I
ask you to please:
- Tell me which version of FreeBSD your pxeboot sources are built from
- Make your FreeBSD pxeboot binary available for me to download from
somewhere so I can try it in case it makes any difference
Thanks for your continued input, I'm really at a loss.
I'll try to send yu a working pxeboot, after I test it under vbox (haven't
tried
for some time), in the mean time make sure that your /etc/exports is realy ok
Ok thanks. It would be funny if you can no longer successfully pxeboot
either :D
should be at least:
-maproot=root
and does not harm:
-alldirs
exports look good:
lstew...@lawrence1> cat /etc/exports
/home/lstewart/devel/pxebase -maproot=root -alldirs
lstew...@lawrence1> ls /home/lstewart/devel/pxebase
8_stable
also, check if you are nating, or bridging, can't remember what I used.
I'm bridging.
and one last thing, vbox/ethernet does not behave nicely after reboot
and also make sure you choose PCnet-FAST II, the III does not work
Definitely using PCnet-FAST II, though have tried III as well. Not sure
what you mean by "vbox/ethernet does not behave nicely after reboot".
The fact that I can PXE/NFS boot a physical machine and mount_nfs works
in a vbox vm running the fixit shell really does point to a boot code
related issue no? If yes, then there's only two pieces that could be
going wrong: the etherboot code or FreeBSD's pxeboot. I'm using your
etherboot rom, so I'm guessing that if it does work for you, then your
pxeboot is special, or my virtual host settings are subtly different.
Cheers,
Lawrence
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