Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 22:12:31 -0500 From: Alan Edmonds <aedmonds@digitalconvergence.com> To: Paul Saab <paul@mu.org> Cc: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PXE (pxeboot) and serial consoles - force it! Message-ID: <396A909F.667C6688@digitalconvergence.com> References: <200007102329.QAA07584@mass.osd.bsdi.com> <396A5D6B.BFFF396F@digitalconvergence.com> <20000710164855.A27888@elvis.mu.org>
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I hate to disagree but my setup loads pxeboot from /tftpboot (as per the tftp line in inetd.conf) and my DHCP options specify the root fs as /pxeroot. pxeboot loads /boot/loader.rc from /pxeroot. It's confusing I know. It also appears to load /pxeboot via tftp and /boot/loader.rc via NFS. Maybe I just have an ill advised configuration. This configuration developed as I figured out how things were put together. I haven't gone back and cleaned things up; but it needs it. Thanks. Paul Saab wrote: > > 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 -- Alan Edmonds Director of International Technology DigitalConvergence.:Com aedmonds@digitalconvergence.com Phone: +1-214-292-6040 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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