Hi,
- again - sorry to bother you all, but at least I progress :-)
I have a VIA C3 Nehemiah (CL1000), 256MB ram, 60GB HDD. CL1000 comes with two ethernet interfaces, both VIA Rhine III 10/100, on my system (from FreeBSD 4.10 dmesg):
vr0: <VIA VT6105 Rhine III 10/100BaseTX> port 0xd000-0xd0ff mem 0xde000000-0xde0000ff irq 12 at device 15.0 pci0
vr0: Ethernet address: 00:40:63:d4:89:72
miibus0: <MII bus> on vr0
vr1: <VIA VT6102 Rhine III 10/100BaseTX> port 0xe800-0xe8ff mem 0xde002000-0xde0020ff irq 11 at device 18.0 pci0
vr1: Ethernet address: 00:40:63:d4:89:71
miibus1: <MII bus> on vr1
VIA supports pxeboot so I wanted to use this with dhcp/tftp/ftp to reinstall the system as I have no spare cd drive.
I have succesfully set up the server for dhcp, tftp and ftp. The VIA machine correctly loads the pxeboot file, fetches a memory filesystem and mounts it as root. All on vr0.
The problem comes when the machine ends stage 3. It does no longer find vr0!?
I previously had problems forcing the boot loader to use the memory file system as root device. I then had compiled the kernel with NFSCLIENT and NFS_ROOT options along with MD_ROOT. With this config the machine tried to nfs mount a root file system over vr0 - no problem finding the interface.
I have now removed all options refering to NFS - BOOTP is still there. Now vr0 is not found.
Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thanks, Erik
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