Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2000 21:59:32 -0700 From: Paul Saab <paul@mu.org> To: Alan Edmonds <aedmonds@digitalconvergence.com> Cc: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PXE (pxeboot) and serial consoles - force it! Message-ID: <20000710215932.A32378@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <396A909F.667C6688@digitalconvergence.com>; from aedmonds@digitalconvergence.com on Mon, Jul 10, 2000 at 10:12:31PM -0500 References: <200007102329.QAA07584@mass.osd.bsdi.com> <396A5D6B.BFFF396F@digitalconvergence.com> <20000710164855.A27888@elvis.mu.org> <396A909F.667C6688@digitalconvergence.com>
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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
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