Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 15:15:32 +0300 From: Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: 6.2/pxe blues, was Re: pxe boot size limit? Message-ID: <E1GPeVg-000HUx-46@cs1.cs.huji.ac.il> In-Reply-To: Your message of Sun, 17 Sep 2006 11:01:58 %2B0300 .
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> it seems that pxeboot has a limit with respect to the kernel size, > which prevents the kernel to get loaded, the error printed is > slightly misleading. > > the solution is to make a kernel with loadable modules, instead of > compiled in. not entirely true :-( but changing kernel size has different results. kernel is 6.2-PRERELEASE. hosts are 64bits: 1 - amd Athlon dual core - nic is em 2 - intel Xeon dual core - nic is bc 3 - intel Pentium 4 K8 - nic is bge 1 & 3 are now booting, but 2 is panics with: /boot/kernel/kernel text=0x430118 data=0x79450+0x3ccf0 syms=[0x8+0x73278+0x8+0x62861] panic: free: guard1 fail @ 0x7c6fe from /r+d/6.2/src/lib/libstand/ufs.c:699 a slightly older kernel, and bigger, boots just fine. booting from local disk is also ok. so, what is causing pxeboot to fail?
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