I've been banging my head against the wall on this for a bit and did not
see anything about it in the list archives.
I am PXE booting a FreeBSD 7 install, using 9600 8n1 for everything.
The PXE boot portion of it seems to be working fine. The loader (as you
can see below) works with the console/serial output and shows the entry
point for the kernel. As soon as the kernel begins loading, a bunch of
garbled-looking output scrolls by on the bottom line of the console very
rapidly and then stops with the terminal's cursor indented 5 spaces on
the bottom line (at the [ in the output below)
I have modified loader.conf by adding:
comconsole_speed="9600"
console="comconsole"
and boot.config with:
/boot/loader -h
and they don't seem to make any significant difference in the behavior
I'm seeing.
The root I'm using for NFS came from the 7.0 release bootonly CD. I
have used this exact setup to PXE boot FreeBSD 7.0 installs on a number
of other non-soekris machines 100% successfully. The only variable that
I can identify in this situation is the odd console behavior of the
Soekris that everyone seems to have worked around at some point or
another (miscellaneous hacks to pxelinux and other boot loaders).
Any suggestions? I've seen a number of mentions on the list of FreeBSD
7.0 being used on boards, so I figure a number of people here have a
solution to this.
Thanks,
Ryan
-- output --
> boot
f0
Intel UNDI, PXE-2.0 (build
082)
Copyright (C) 1997,1998,1999 Intel
Corporation
VIA Rhine III Management Adapter v2.43
(2005/12/15)
CLIENT MAC ADDR: 00 00 24 CA DC
B8
CLIENT IP: 192.168.10.157 MASK: 255.255.255.0 DHCP IP:
192.168.10.1
GATEWAY IP:
192.168.10.1
PXE Loader
1.00
Building the boot loader
arguments
Relocating the loader and the
BTX
Starting the BTX
loader
/boot/kernel/kernel text=0x6fd45c data=0xad540+0x5a680
syms=[0x4+0x701f0+0x4+]/
[useless kernel output here]
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