> > It seems there are some problems with using pxeboot in combination with > > the network boot code from the etherboot project. I have tried many > > combinations of options with no success. The result is very similar to > > the following photo I found: > > > > http://photos.night-shade.org.uk/photo.php?photo=6364 > > > > I have tried it both on my local machine and in vmware with the same > > result. It seems that somehow etherboot is not setting up the > > environment the way pxeboot expects it too. Now the native pxe boot > > code in vmware does load pxeboot correctly and I have successfully > > booted freebsd in vmware, however I can't get the pxe boot code on my > > network card to load at all, hence my need for etherboot. Also, both > > pxeboot from FreeBSD 4.11 and 6.0-BETA2 crash the same way. I'm > > assuming this is really a bug in etherboot, but I'm not sure how to get > > a crash dump to play with. With vmware, it seems like I should be able > > to save a memory image to examine, but I'm not sure how to do that. > > Any ideas on a fix for this? > > Just my experience. I never handled to successfully pxeboot FreeBSD.
pxeboot works fine! i have some 50 hosts pxeboot'ing that say so. it's etherboot loading pxeboot that does not work. danny _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
