From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 10 21:59:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [207.154.226.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ADC0037B8E6; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 21:59:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from paul@elvis.mu.org) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id DC4712B2CE; Mon, 10 Jul 2000 23:59:32 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 21:59:32 -0700 From: Paul Saab To: Alan Edmonds Cc: Mike Smith , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PXE (pxeboot) and serial consoles - force it! Message-ID: <20000710215932.A32378@elvis.mu.org> References: <200007102329.QAA07584@mass.osd.bsdi.com> <396A5D6B.BFFF396F@digitalconvergence.com> <20000710164855.A27888@elvis.mu.org> <396A909F.667C6688@digitalconvergence.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <396A909F.667C6688@digitalconvergence.com>; from aedmonds@digitalconvergence.com on Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 10:12:31PM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alan Edmonds (aedmonds@digitalconvergence.com) wrote: > I hate to disagree but my setup loads pxeboot from /tftpboot (as per > the tftp line in inetd.conf) and my DHCP options specify the root fs as > /pxeroot. pxeboot loads /boot/loader.rc from /pxeroot. It's confusing > I know. It also appears to load /pxeboot via tftp and /boot/loader.rc > via NFS. Maybe I just have an ill advised configuration. Ok.. that is true.. (I just dont do it that way) The PXE bootrom downloads via tftp and we set the loader to use NFS by default. The NFS support is much better than tftp, so that is why its the default. > This configuration developed as I figured out how things were put > together. I haven't gone back and cleaned things up; but it needs it. :) -- Paul Saab Technical Yahoo paul@mu.org - ps@yahoo-inc.com - ps@freebsd.org Do You .. uhh .. Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message