Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 03:15:58 -0600 From: Paul Procacci <pprocacci@bellsouth.net> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: mfs_root booting problems Message-ID: <4549B74E.8050808@bellsouth.net>
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Hey all, I've been having a problem that hopefully someone would be able to help me with. I've been trying to boot FreeBSD via PXE for at least a couple of days now with no luck. I've read several online guides none of which explain using a root mfs to accomplish this task. Most of the manuals I've read go over mounting / as NFS which isn't ideal for me. I've got mostly everything working *up to* the point where the system begins bootstrapping. It loads the kernel, loads the mfs root and then the machine immediately reboots. For the life of me, I can't figure out why. I was hoping that someone has a documented method for initializing a FreeBSD system via PXE and without the use of NFS for the root filesystem. For refernce my loader.rc: echo Loading Your Kernel Fool!!! set hint.acpi.0.disabled="1" ## have tried it without it being disabled. load /boot/kernel/kernel echo echo Loading mfs filesystem YoYo!! load -t mfs_root /mfsroot echo booting... echo \007\007 set vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/md0" ## have tried /dev/md0c as well boot ------------------------------------------------------------------ wacko# ll /tftpboot/mfsroot -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 4423680 Nov 2 02:33 /tftpboot/mfsroot -------------------------------------------------------------------- Assuming the mfs file sysetm is being create without error (I assume it is due to a lack of error messages), then I assume loader reads init like usual. wacko# file /mnt/mfsroot/sbin/init /mnt/mfsroot/sbin/init: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD), statically linked, stripped And then continues on with /etc/rc.... wacko# file /mnt/mfsroot/etc/rc /mnt/mfsroot/etc/rc: Bourne shell script text executable As for the rest of the files....they are certainly all there......... I believe it's also worth mentioning, that if I use the mfsroot that comes with the installer, it loads/run fine. Not sure if this helps any or not. What could I possibly be missing? Thanks for the time.
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