Dear Colleagues, Now that there are many PCs with UEFI-only BIOSes (no legacy mode nor CSM), how can I install FreeBSD over network on those?
I successfully boot iPXE from the network, then load FreeBSD installation media over http: dhcp sanboot http://192.168.170.5/tftpboot/FreeBSD-12.2-RELEASE-amd64-mini-memstick.img or dhcp sanboot http://192.168.170.5/tftpboot/FreeBSD-12.2-RELEASE-amd64-bootonly.iso Good news: both images get transferred successfully over the network and start to boot. They even reach the "Loading kernel..." stage. Bad news: later they freeze or break at various points of the boot process. This is just one example of a frozen boot: http://admin.sibptus.ru/~vas/IMG_20201221_190435.jpg if I press "Enter" here, it reboots. If anybody is interested I can probably produce more info. But first of all, please tell me if I have chosen the right technology (iPXE) for booting the installation media over the network, or maybe what I'm doing is stupid and there *is* the right way. -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN 2:5005/49@fidonet http://vas.tomsk.ru/
signature.asc
Description: PGP signature
