RE: PXE booting issues

2007-06-25 Thread Matthew X. Economou
Morgan, I had much better luck using PXELINUX to chain-load FreeBSD. I wrote up an article on the subject (http://web.irtnog.org/doc/how-to/freebsd-install-pxe-wds), but the corresponding blog entry might make for a shorter read

Re: PXE booting issues

2007-06-24 Thread Danny Braniss
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

Re: PXE booting issues

2007-06-24 Thread Robert Joosten
Hi, 2- the dhcp should tell pxeloader where the root is: option root-path ip:/path And next-server I have a couple of version 6.2 pxe-clients booting of a 4.11 box without a problem. A snippet of my dhcpd.conf: host gister { hardware ethernet

Re: PXE booting issues

2007-06-24 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Sun, Jun 24, 2007 at 09:27:42PM +1000, Morgan Reed wrote: == 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

Re: PXE booting issues

2007-06-24 Thread Morgan Reed
On 6/25/07, Robert Joosten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And next-server My dhcpd.conf has an appropriate next-server directive, all the configuration (for the network boot) has been duplicated from the functional DragonFly boot server. I have a couple of version 6.2 pxe-clients booting of a 4.11

Re: PXE booting issues

2007-06-24 Thread Morgan Reed
On 6/25/07, Jeremy Chadwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I hope this helps clear up any concern over that part. Thanks for the explanation, that makes sense. Unfortunately it still doesn't explain why the file is not being created, the fact that the dd command is outputting a count for records