From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 2 00:44:33 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F00F106566C for ; Mon, 2 Apr 2012 00:44:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from zbeeble@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bk0-f54.google.com (mail-bk0-f54.google.com [209.85.214.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F92E8FC08 for ; Mon, 2 Apr 2012 00:44:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkcjc3 with SMTP id jc3so2287117bkc.13 for ; Sun, 01 Apr 2012 17:44:32 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=4rbLGlZm/ICdkboVi5SfIlQqaTXfMWt1wXXPoHS13MU=; b=WJDuFzA/IcYJTodGKK7wIfz/WN0JWMpDEuU0X1wyrNcTQHFfCBY6oKOV2+GKs13Nyg 3YZ4v+iJITNP8wsweHiYpMZ1TbX8IDbQXGER9bfZOf0AIBjEn0lLHibJF1l1pKuYZWUG mkJPJJTdvWGG9ZxaSPYicw81k+POayu+IXdGzk8xXEL6l0PQsqxvtlj2YYZZSHU/ByIG bAGtzAyeDfY/x67UcBut1fhTh8ajmc0CzyHZOGV3HIPqs3vy2wsp0z72M/Zz+iQZ3RoW GJ647AtPIHvx21pJBp/cnrpRUHqiQJNQPbxs/zy/6QITy4U0Bd7kSEbyNRlzMVsbZKly h31Q== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.9.194 with SMTP id m2mr2664248bkm.92.1333327471895; Sun, 01 Apr 2012 17:44:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.69.195 with HTTP; Sun, 1 Apr 2012 17:44:31 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2012 20:44:31 -0400 Message-ID: From: Zaphod Beeblebrox To: FreeBSD Net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Subject: PXE Boot vmware 8.x fails after pxeboot. X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 Apr 2012 00:44:33 -0000 I have had diskless FreeBSD machines before. I started this project with an eye to booting iscsi disks, but there seems to be no way to communicate the root disk path (and parameters) to FreeBSD --- something that might be solvable, but I need practical at the moment. So I fall back on NFS diskless with PXE boot (I may have used etherboot in the past --- it's been awhile). Anyways... this attempt is made with FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE binaries. In my network, 192.168.0.1 is the DHCP and TFTP server. 192.168.0.52 is my NFS server. The new vmware guest is bridged and gets 192.168.0.135. It successfully gets 'pxeboot' onto the vmware guest --- pxeboot prints it's banner. Then the only network traffic I observe is DHCP Discover (vmware, presumably the pxeboot binary) followed by DHCP Offer (192.168.0.1 again) and this repeats. Now the dhcp offer gives a root path of "192.168.0.52:/vr/diskless/hit" ... and I've tried it with and without a trailing slash. Obviously this is something within the pxeboot's binary as no attempt to make the nfs mount occurs.