Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 16:48:55 -0700 From: Paul Saab <paul@mu.org> To: Alan Edmonds <aedmonds@digitalconvergence.com> Cc: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PXE (pxeboot) and serial consoles - force it! Message-ID: <20000710164855.A27888@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <396A5D6B.BFFF396F@digitalconvergence.com>; from aedmonds@digitalconvergence.com on Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 06:34:03PM -0500 References: <200007102329.QAA07584@mass.osd.bsdi.com> <396A5D6B.BFFF396F@digitalconvergence.com>
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Alan Edmonds (aedmonds@digitalconvergence.com) wrote: > Except if pxeboot can't read loader.rc you could be hosed. > Since pxeboot is loaded over the network, you might not > be able to mount the root fs and read /boot/loader.rc. > I was just trying to set the default case to assume serial console > like you can with boot[012]. pxeboot loads /boot/loader.rc over the network from the same place the PXE bootrom loaded pxeboot. It is done with either NFS or TFTP (depending on what you compile). Therefore, if it could load pxeboot, then it can more than likely load /boot/loader.rc. -- Paul Saab Technical Yahoo paul@mu.org - ps@yahoo-inc.com - ps@freebsd.org Do You .. uhh .. Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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