Re: PXEBOOT/TFTPBOOT + big MD_ROOT problem

2005-04-25 Thread Emmanuel Chriqui
I'm trying to make very big MD_ROOT (300MB) sent using PXEBOOT+TFTPBOOT. No NFS. It's a sort of diskless machine with all the system on ram. There is a problem when the preloaded image is ~32MB. Kernel loads but it does not seem to find the files. It seems as if only part of the image is

RE: PXEBOOT/TFTPBOOT + big MD_ROOT problem

2005-04-20 Thread Emmanuel Chriqui
Objet : Re: PXEBOOT/TFTPBOOT + big MD_ROOT problem Hi, I'm trying to make very big MD_ROOT (300MB) sent using PXEBOOT+TFTPBOOT. No NFS. It's a sort of diskless machine with all the system on ram. There is a problem when the preloaded image is ~32MB. Kernel loads but it does

Re: PXEBOOT/TFTPBOOT + big MD_ROOT problem

2005-04-20 Thread Kövesdán Gábor
Marc Olzheim wrote: On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 09:52:07AM +0200, Emmanuel Chriqui wrote: Hi, I'm trying to make very big MD_ROOT (300MB) sent using PXEBOOT+TFTPBOOT. No NFS. Any reasons for not using NFS ? I use i386/5.4RC2/TFTPD/PXEBOOT+TFTPBOOT . (same pb with a 5.3). Am I missing

Re: PXEBOOT/TFTPBOOT + big MD_ROOT problem

2005-04-20 Thread David G. Lawrence
Hi, I'm trying to make very big MD_ROOT (300MB) sent using PXEBOOT+TFTPBOOT. No NFS. It's a sort of diskless machine with all the system on ram. There is a problem when the preloaded image is ~32MB. Kernel loads but it does not seem to find the files. It seems as if only part of the image

Re: PXEBOOT/TFTPBOOT + big MD_ROOT problem

2005-04-20 Thread Francois Tigeot
On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 04:18:17PM -0700, David G. Lawrence wrote: I assume you saw this in the tftpd manual page? BUGS Files larger than 33488896 octets (65535 blocks) cannot be transferred without client and server supporting blocksize negotiation (RFC1783). Many

PXEBOOT/TFTPBOOT + big MD_ROOT problem

2005-04-19 Thread Emmanuel Chriqui
Hi, I'm trying to make very big MD_ROOT (300MB) sent using PXEBOOT+TFTPBOOT. No NFS. It's a sort of diskless machine with all the system on ram. When image is small ( = 45M ) everything boots ok. But if greater, then the kernel does not find the /sbin/init and then reboots over and over, as if

Re: PXEBOOT/TFTPBOOT + big MD_ROOT problem

2005-04-19 Thread Marc Olzheim
On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 09:52:07AM +0200, Emmanuel Chriqui wrote: Hi, I'm trying to make very big MD_ROOT (300MB) sent using PXEBOOT+TFTPBOOT. No NFS. Any reasons for not using NFS ? I use i386/5.4RC2/TFTPD/PXEBOOT+TFTPBOOT . (same pb with a 5.3). Am I missing something obvious?

RE: PXEBOOT/TFTPBOOT + big MD_ROOT problem

2005-04-19 Thread Emmanuel Chriqui
-Message d'origine- De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] De la part de Marc Olzheim Envoyé : mardi 19 avril 2005 21:06 À : Emmanuel Chriqui Cc : freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Objet : Re: PXEBOOT/TFTPBOOT + big MD_ROOT problem

Re: PXEBOOT/TFTPBOOT + big MD_ROOT problem

2005-04-19 Thread Marc Olzheim
On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 09:31:10PM +0200, Emmanuel Chriqui wrote: This is roughly how it works under our linux servers, webservers, etc... I was hoping to avoid that approach (less work.. less maintenance..). Am I the only one on earth to need a big MFSROOT ??? :) Hmm, I guess so. :-P

RE: PXEBOOT/TFTPBOOT + big MD_ROOT problem

2005-04-19 Thread Emmanuel Chriqui
Objet : Re: PXEBOOT/TFTPBOOT + big MD_ROOT problem On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 09:31:10PM +0200, Emmanuel Chriqui wrote: This is roughly how it works under our linux servers, webservers, etc... I was hoping to avoid that approach (less work.. less maintenance..). Am I the only one

RE: PXEBOOT/TFTPBOOT + big MD_ROOT problem

2005-04-19 Thread Emmanuel Chriqui
Objet : Re: PXEBOOT/TFTPBOOT + big MD_ROOT problem Marc Olzheim wrote: On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 09:52:07AM +0200, Emmanuel Chriqui wrote: Hi, I'm trying to make very big MD_ROOT (300MB) sent using PXEBOOT+TFTPBOOT. No NFS. Any reasons for not using NFS ? I use i386