From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 20 05:20:14 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C69216A4CE for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 05:20:14 +0000 (GMT) Received: from transport.cksoft.de (transport.cksoft.de [62.111.66.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0C1543D4C for ; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 05:20:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net) Received: from transport.cksoft.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by transport.cksoft.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07EF61FF9A8; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 07:20:08 +0200 (CEST) Received: by transport.cksoft.de (Postfix, from userid 66) id 32DAD1FF931; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 07:20:06 +0200 (CEST) Received: by mail.int.zabbadoz.net (Postfix, from userid 1060) id 4D94A156C2; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 05:16:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.int.zabbadoz.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42B7815682; Wed, 20 Oct 2004 05:16:51 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 05:16:51 +0000 (UTC) From: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" X-X-Sender: bz@e0-0.zab2.int.zabbadoz.net To: Tim Dettloff In-Reply-To: <5b0444b5041019144217cdbd99@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <5b0444b5041019144217cdbd99@mail.gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS cksoft-s20020300-20031204bz on transport.cksoft.de cc: FreeBSD current mailing list Subject: Re: pxe-install on FreeBSD 5.3 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 05:20:14 -0000 On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Tim Dettloff wrote: Hi, > On 5.2.1-RELEASE i could just copy /boot from the boot-only iso to my > tftp-sever, compile pxeboot with LOADER_TFTP_SUPPORT=YES and I was > ready to pxeinstall. > > When I do the same with 5.3-RC1 the kernel wants to mount root from > NFS instead of /dev/md0. > > What is the reason for this change? I don't know but I had posted a solution earlier this year. If I rememeber correctly it had been setting set vfs.root.mountfrom="ufs:/dev/md0c" in boot/loader.rc. > In addition it would really be nice if the iso contained a > pxeboot build with LOADER_TFTP_SUPPORT=YES in addition to the > standard one. I imagine it is only a couple of lines extra in the makefile..? +1 from me ;) -- Bjoern A. Zeeb bzeeb at Zabbadoz dot NeT