Hi,
Sorry - I have no more descriptive subject because this is really strange:
I have set up a server to serve clients booting with pxeboot and fetching kernel and a memory disk root file system with tftp. So far so good. What is strange is this:
1) If the local harddrive (which contains an old FreeBSD 4.9) is installed, the client correctly configures the ethernet card (vr0) and tries to mount a root file system using NFS - but the whole idea was to avoid using NFS at all.
If I leave the root-path unset in the dhcpd.conf the client will try to mount the root file system from <next-server>:/pxeroot
2) If I remove the harddrive, then it mounts the memory file system as root file system and launches sysinstall (which is what I really want) - however, it fails to initialize the network card, and there is (obviously) no disk to install on.
the ethernet driver is compiled into the kernel - no modules need to be loaded, these are my loader files:
loader.rc: include /boot/loader.4th start
loader.conf: init_path="/sbin/init:/stand/sysinstall" rootfs_load="YES" rootfs_name="/boot/mfsroot" rootfs_type="mfs_root" autoboot_delay=5
boot/ on tftp server: defaults kernel loader.gz pxeboot device.hints loader.4th loader.rc support.4th frames.4th loader.conf mfsroot
Any hints would be greatly appreciated!
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