From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 27 07:00:09 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5DF116A428 for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 07:00:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jpp@cloudview.com) Received: from skipjack.no-such-agency.net (skipjack.no-such-agency.net [64.142.114.146]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9256343D4C for ; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 07:00:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jpp@cloudview.com) Received: from skipjack.no-such-agency.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by skipjack.no-such-agency.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBD6034DA1A; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 00:00:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.120] (blackhole.no-such-agency.net [64.142.103.196]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by skipjack.no-such-agency.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C5D034DA19; Thu, 27 Apr 2006 00:00:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <44506BEE.20308@cloudview.com> Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 23:59:58 -0700 From: John Pettitt User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Windows/20060308) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Erik_N=F8rgaard?= References: <44501903.9060206@cloudview.com> <44505D71.6060803@locolomo.org> In-Reply-To: <44505D71.6060803@locolomo.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-AV-Checked: by skipjack Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pxeboot looping X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 07:00:11 -0000 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