Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 13:15:37 -0600 From: Tim Judd <tajudd@gmail.com> To: Bruce Ferrell <bferrell@baywinds.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PXEBOOT based upgrade/install Message-ID: <ade45ae90906181215s31ee3429tea1db0c5a9177b3e@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4A3A88B9.9040704@baywinds.org> References: <4A3A88B9.9040704@baywinds.org>
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If you're going to setup a netbooting server (congrats!), why are you trying to limit yourself to what seems to be the bootonly CD? There are some people who complain about broadcom cards, in the fact that they're buggy support/nonexistant support. Maybe your NIC chipset is one of those. The loader.rc is told to mount a memory filesystem from ufs formatted disk located at /dev/md0c (a memory disk that is populated from the previous line, a file-based filesystem). So your system wouldn't be able to hit sysinstall or the /etc files (as I'm seeing the boot process) to do the install or configuration. Overall, what's to stop you from doing a diskless boot? the handbook makes it for a multi-PC setup, but for a single setup, it's quite easy. On 6/18/09, Bruce Ferrell <bferrell@baywinds.org> wrote: > Hi all! > > I'm new in these parts, but not new to *nix. I'm trying to upgrade a > system with FreeBSD 5.4 to 7.2. > > I've gotten the pxeboot to work, but somehow the network interface isn't > seen by the installer. > > loader.rc: > =========== > include /boot/loader.4th > include /boot/beastie.4th > > \ Reads and processes loader.conf variables > start > > load /boot/kernel/kernel > load -t mfs_root /boot/mfsroot > set vfs.root.mountfrom="ufs:/dev/md0c" > boot > > loader.conf: > ============ > mfsroot_load="YES" > mfsroot_type="mfs_root" > mfsroot_name="/boot/mfsroot" > if_bge_load="yes" > > I added the if_bge line at that seems to be the module used on 5.4. > > Any other leads? > > Thanks in advance > > Bruce > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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