Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 23:59:58 -0700 From: John Pettitt <jpp@cloudview.com> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Erik_N=F8rgaard?= <norgaard@locolomo.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pxeboot looping Message-ID: <44506BEE.20308@cloudview.com> In-Reply-To: <44505D71.6060803@locolomo.org> References: <44501903.9060206@cloudview.com> <44505D71.6060803@locolomo.org>
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Erik Nørgaard wrote: > John Pettitt wrote: > >> Help! >> >> I'm trying to set up a machine to boot using pxe and have run into an >> odd problem. >> >> The box (a Soekris 4510) load pxeboot via TFTP prints a few lines of >> text then reboots - the last text I see is: >> >> >>> Building the boot loader arguments >>> Relocating the loader and the BTX >>> Starting the BTX loader >>> >> There is no further net traffic after the last tftp packet. >> >> I'm stumped - I thought it might be a cpu issue (the Soekris is a 486 >> clone) so I rebuilt pxeboot with -march=i486 and it didn't make any >> difference. >> > > Do you see the pxeboot actually gets fetched? Check the logs on your > server. My immediate idea is that it doesn't get as far as fetching the > pxeboot loader. > > Erik > It's fetching it - I just grabbed pxeboot from an iso image ant that one gets a lot further so I suspect something in my build environment is not right for the soekris box. I'm still investigating. John
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