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Date:      Mon, 6 Aug 2001 13:10:15 +0200 (CEST)
From:      "Hartmann, O." <ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de>
To:        Bjoern Fischer <bfischer@Techfak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>
Cc:        <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: pxeboot BROKEN!
Message-ID:  <20010806130524.I13220-100000@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de>
In-Reply-To: <20010806020338.A337@broccoli.no-support.loc>

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Dear Sirs.

I just compiled and installed a whole system, freshly cvsupdated two hours
ago, by removing all kinds of optimizations from the compiler. The result
is still the same. After the diskless station got its IP, gateway and
hostname from the DHCP, it tries to load and start pxeboot - and crahses
immediately! Using a backuped pxeboot image from the 1st of August does
not crahs the stations.

Again, I report what kind of terminals/diskless stations we use and please note this!
AMD Duron, 700 MHz, DFI AK74-EC main PCB, Intel EtherExpress with PXE BootROM
Management Software Version 17 (the newest ypu can get from Intel, but version
14 also does not work on the specified diskless stations!), 64 MB RAM.
The OS is FreeBSD 4.4-PRERELEASE (due to the fact we cvsupdate every week).

Does anyone use a similar, AMD based configuration?

:>On Sun, Aug 05, 2001 at 08:39:56PM +0200, Hartmann, O. wrote:
:>[...]
:>> But pxeboot in /boot/ seems still broken! We cn not boot any diskless
:>> station (AMD based systems) here with the most recent image of pxeboot.
:>> To make the stations working we have to use a backuped imag from the 31st
:>> Juky this year.
:>>
:>> Can anyone make a statement? Hope I'm not the only one who got in trouble
:>> playing with the newest stuff by simply doing a cvsupdate ...
:>
:>Although I am still using 4.3-RELEASE (no spare machines for playing
:>with new toys or pre-releases) I did a cvsup to the recent 4-STABLE
:>source code and compiled the boot code. The new pxeboot works pretty
:>normally, no casualties there.
:>
:>Since I used the 4.3-RELEASE tool chain the problem may be located
:>there. Also make sure not to use fancy compiler options like -O2 or
:>-m486, etc.
:>
:>  Björn Fischer
:>
:>--
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--
MfG
O. Hartmann

ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de
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