Did you recompile your kernel with options:
options BOOTP # Use BOOTP to obtain IP address/hostname
options BOOTP_NFSROOT # NFS mount root filesystem using BOOTP info
options BOOTP_COMPAT # Workaround for broken bootp daemons.
Yes, I did. How else would the other
I've succesfully put up 4 diskless machines to boot up 4.9-release thru
PXE. They all work almost flawlessly. But when I connected an old 1GB hard
drive into one of them for swap, as NFS swap is a bit slow, it hangs for
some reason at trying to mount the hard drive as / at boot up.
Dmesg reports
On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 08:27:38PM +0200, User Mike wrote:
I've succesfully put up 4 diskless machines to boot up 4.9-release thru
PXE. They all work almost flawlessly. But when I connected an old 1GB hard
drive into one of them for swap, as NFS swap is a bit slow, it hangs for
some reason at
Hello all,
I looked in the handbook, and didn't see anything about doing a network
boot on a PC from a freebsd server. Is this at all a possibility?
Eric F Crist
President
AdTech Integrated Systems, Inc
(612) 998-3588
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On 16 Dec, Eric F Crist wrote:
Hello all,
I looked in the handbook, and didn't see anything about doing a network
boot on a PC from a freebsd server. Is this at all a possibility?
Besides the handbook there are a lot of useful books and articles:
http://www.freebsd.org/docs.html#articles
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 10:13:18AM -0600, Eric F Crist wrote:
Hello all,
I looked in the handbook, and didn't see anything about doing a network
boot on a PC from a freebsd server. Is this at all a possibility?
A member of our local Unix users group presented a talk on this subject
not too
