I'd had too many attempts/iterations. So I've re-grouped, and have summarized what I've found with attempts at a headless install of pfsense, guided by your FreeBSD 6.x Tutorial.
My current state-of-affairs is that the right boot_device is missing. Extracting your: http://www.ultradesic.com/pub/FreeBSD-6.1_Files/tftpboot.tar.gz --> .../boot/kernel/* .../boot/pxeboot .../boot/loader And, replacing the pfsense distro's like, included files with them, at soekris boot, I: DO get a DHCP address: ... CLIENT IP: 10.0.0.50 MASK: 255.255.255.0 DHCP IP: 10.0.0.10 GATEWAY IP: 10.0.0.1 PXE Loader 1.00 ... DO see the bootstrap loader find & load the tftp-published "loader.conf": ... FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1 ([EMAIL PROTECTED], Sat Aug 12 18:17:59 EDT 2006) pxe_open: server addr: 10.0.0.10 pxe_open: server path: /private/tftpboot pxe_open: gateway ip: 10.0.0.1 NFS MOUNT RPC error: 60 Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf ... DO see your kernel load: ... FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #4: Sat Aug 12 20:52:20 EDT 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/NET4801 ... DO see the empty/mounted HDD in the soekris recognized: ... ad0: 38154MB <HTS541040G9AT00 MB2OA60A> at ata0-master UDMA33 ... DO see the loader try/fail to mount: ... Trying to mount root from cd9660:/dev/iso9660/pfSense ... as defined in: cat /private/tftpboot/etc/fstab /dev/iso9660/pfSense / cd9660 ro 0 0 Then the process halts at: Manual root filesystem specification: <fstype>:<device> Mount <device> using filesystem <fstype> eg. ufs:da0s1a ? List valid disk boot devices <empty line> Abort manual input mountroot> and: mountroot> ? List of GEOM managed disk devices: ad0 If I understand this output correctly, everything's OK to the point where the pxeboot process looks for a mountable root. The "right device" is clearly neither ad0 /dev/iso9660/pfSense I think the question is, then, what is the dev ID/name of the device that SHOULD be specified, namely the tftp-mounted partition? and where should it be specified ? --Tenzen _______________________________________________ Soekris-tech mailing list [email protected] http://lists.soekris.com/mailman/listinfo/soekris-tech
