> I'm currently working on an embedded project which will be built
> around a BSD (I'm not sure which yet), currently I have an image up
> and running DragonFly and I'm currently attempting to do the same with
> FreeBSD for comparison.
>
> I'm more or less following the miniBSD tutorials (updating the various
> file lists and such as I go).
>
> The system is being built around 6.2-STABLE but I'm having some issues
> getting it to PXE boot.
>
> On my FreeBSD host I've enabled TFTP, exported the rootfs for the
> system via NFS, built and installed isc-dhcpd and configured it with
> the extra options for PXE booting.
>
> The client currently gets its IP address from the server successfully,
> retrieves and loads pxeboot but when it comes to launch the kernel it
> eventually throws an NFS timeout.
>
> I know the export is working because I used NFS to pull the rootfs
> over to my DragonFly boot host to see what the result was when I
> booted the same image from a known working boot host (it worked
> correctly until it hit a problem in the image I will detail in a
> separate message).
>
> I did attempt to rebuild the pxeboot loader, following the standard
> instructions;
> set LOADER_TFTP_SUPPORT=YES in /etc/make.conf
> cd /usr/src/sys/boot
> make clean && make depend && make
>
> It appears to be successful (and the output would support this) but
> the i386/pxeldr/pxeboot and i386/loader/loader files do not exist, my
> only guess is that I've not set a make variable I should have, the
> most confusing part is that the dd command which is the final step in
> generating pxeboot appears in the output and appears to be successful;
> ==============
> dd if=pxeboot.tmp of=pxeboot obs=2k conv=osync
> 425+0 records in
> 107+0 records out
> ==============
> The discrepancy in the records in and the records out is concerning
> but I would expect the file to exist regardless, I'm currently using
> the default /boot/pxeboot.
>
> Any suggestions as to what might be causing this would be greatly appreciated.
1- try sniffing (wireshark, not the kind that will get you high :-)
and see where it hangs.
2- the dhcp should tell pxeloader where the root is:
option root-path "ip....:/path"
danny
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