Thank you for the quick response!
On Aug 23, 2012, at 6:25 PM, Daisuke Aoyama aoy...@peach.ne.jp wrote:
It seems a bug of isboot. Your NIC is link down, but isboot never retry
on first connection. Because of this, it failed to find the boot device.
I have updated isboot and created 9.1-RC based image.
Please try it:
http://www.peach.ne.jp/archives/isboot/isboot-0.2.6.tar.gz
Working great with the new version of the module. It retries 3-4 times until
the link comes up then continues. Performing pretty well, too--this is over a
1Gbps LAN on somewhat dated consumer hardware, with istgt and a ZFS zvol on the
other end.
http://www.peach.ne.jp/archives/isboot/demo/FreeBSD-9.1-RC1-amd64-memstick-isboot-0.2.6.img
I have a few questions for you (or other knowledgeable people on the list):
1) Does iBFT require hardware support in the NIC?
2) Does iBFT require NIC driver support?
NO. You can use both iBFT software like gPXE and NIC's rom like Intel iSCSI
boot agent.
The isboot should work with any NIC supported by FreeBSD.
Fantastic.
3) Is anything required in loader.conf besides isboot_load=YES?
If your NIC driver is within the kernel, you need only isboot_load=YES.
4) Is it likely to work (better) if I find an em(4) card instead?
I have tested with Intel cards/onboard. If you want the maximum performance,
I recommend you to use Intel card, but other cards should work with isboot.
I'll stick with what I have for this machine since it's working. In case you're
interested, here is the dmesg output from the machine:
mptable_probe: MP Config Table has bad signature: 4\^C\^_
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FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT #2 r239337M: Fri Aug 24 12:58:51 EDT 2012
r...@stealth.jnielsen.net:/usr/obj/i386.i386/usr/src/sys/BUFF i386
CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2800+ (2079.60-MHz 686-class CPU)
Origin = AuthenticAMD Id = 0x6a0 Family = 6 Model = a Stepping = 0
Features=0x383fbffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE
AMD Features=0xc0400800SYSCALL,MMX+,3DNow!+,3DNow!
real memory = 1342177280 (1280 MB)
avail memory = 1300516864 (1240 MB)
Event timer LAPIC quality 400
ACPI APIC Table: Nvidia AWRDACPI
ioapic0 Version 1.1 irqs 0-23 on motherboard
kbd1 at kbdmux0
acpi0: Nvidia AWRDACPI on motherboard
acpi0: Power Button (fixed)
acpi0: reservation of 0, a (3) failed
acpi0: reservation of 10, 4fef (3) failed
cpu0: ACPI CPU on acpi0
attimer0: AT timer port 0x40-0x43 irq 0 on acpi0
Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
Event timer i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 100
atrtc0: AT realtime clock port 0x70-0x73 irq 8 on acpi0
Event timer RTC frequency 32768 Hz quality 0
Timecounter ACPI-fast frequency 3579545 Hz quality 900
acpi_timer0: 24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz port 0x4008-0x400b on acpi0
acpi_button0: Power Button on acpi0
pcib0: ACPI Host-PCI bridge port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0
pci0: ACPI PCI bus on pcib0
Correcting nForce2 C1 CPU disconnect hangs
agp0: NVIDIA nForce2 AGP Controller on hostb0
pci0: memory, RAM at device 0.1 (no driver attached)
pci0: memory, RAM at device 0.2 (no driver attached)
pci0: memory, RAM at device 0.3 (no driver attached)
pci0: memory, RAM at device 0.4 (no driver attached)
pci0: memory, RAM at device 0.5 (no driver attached)
isab0: PCI-ISA bridge at device 1.0 on pci0
isa0: ISA bus on isab0
nfsmb0: nForce2/3/4 MCP SMBus Controller port 0xd800-0xd81f irq 23 at device
1.1 on pci0
smbus0: System Management Bus on nfsmb0
nfsmb1: nForce2/3/4 MCP SMBus Controller on nfsmb0
smbus1: System Management Bus on nfsmb1
ohci0: OHCI (generic) USB controller mem 0xe5085000-0xe5085fff irq 20 at
device 2.0 on pci0
usbus0 on ohci0
ohci1: OHCI (generic) USB controller mem 0xe5081000-0xe5081fff irq 21 at
device 2.1 on pci0
usbus1 on ohci1
ehci0: NVIDIA nForce2 USB 2.0 controller mem 0xe5082000-0xe50820ff irq 22 at
device 2.2 on pci0
usbus2: EHCI version 1.0
usbus2 on ehci0
pci0: multimedia, audio at device 5.0 (no driver attached)
pcm0: nVidia nForce2 port 0xdc00-0xdcff,0xe000-0xe07f mem
0xe5086000-0xe5086fff irq 21 at device 6.0 on pci0
pcm0: Avance Logic ALC650 AC97 Codec
pcib1: ACPI PCI-PCI bridge at device 8.0 on pci0
pci1: ACPI PCI bus on pcib1
skc0: Marvell Gigabit Ethernet port 0x9000-0x90ff mem 0xe402-0xe4023fff
irq 17 at device 4.0 on pci1
skc0: Marvell Yukon Lite Gigabit Ethernet rev. A3(0x7)
sk0: Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. Yukon on skc0
sk0: Ethernet address: 00:11:2f:57:f4:bf
miibus0: MII bus on sk0
e1000phy0: Marvell 88E1011 Gigabit PHY PHY 0 on miibus0
e1000phy0: none, 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT,
1000baseT-master, 1000baseT-FDX, 1000baseT-FDX-master, auto
pci1: simple comms, UART at device 7.0 (no driver attached)
ath0: Atheros
