Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2014 16:33:46 +0000 From: "Sinha, Prokash" <psinha@panasas.com> To: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: PXE boot Message-ID: <D02DE270.18AA%psinha@panasas.com> In-Reply-To: <D02DE132.18A0%psinha@panasas.com> References: <D02C8BE1.179F%psinha@panasas.com> <1641492.zXWdUoX4Sh@ralph.baldwin.cx> <D02CE8DA.17D2%psinha@panasas.com> <8193889.CqHK0JhjBu@ralph.baldwin.cx> <D02DE132.18A0%psinha@panasas.com>
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On 9/4/14 9:31 AM, "Sinha, Prokash" <psinha@panasas.com> wrote: >Thanks once again... > >This is the part - that you spelled out is why I had a trace in the >pxe_enable(...) routine. As well as at pxe_init( ...) routine, just to be >sure >the pxe.c routines are working like ( as you said ) devsw invocation. But >did not see the trace messages, could be serial console is not acting ( >though I doubt it). > >Now gave me a base, off of what I could debug ... > >-prokash > >On 9/4/14 7:57 AM, "John Baldwin" <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote: > >>On Wednesday, September 03, 2014 11:16:05 PM Sinha, Prokash wrote: >>> Thanks much, John ! >>>=20 >>> When it starts executing ? How ?. Who starts executing these. From the >>> Makefile it's org is 0x7c00. So I would assume that it would be loaded >>>at >>> that absolute real-mode address !. I don't understand this part. But, >>>if I >>> put traces, I see pxe_open, and pxe_close are being called, but after >>>all >>> these pxe_calls are done, the loader's main is invoked at Rebooting =A9 >>>time. >>>=20 >>> We are using a net boot server, and I see mountd- authenticated =A9 >>>message >>> storm on the boot server side. >>>=20 >>> Wondering what could cause such a message storm, while pxe_open() -> >>>net >>> if_open( ) executes. >> >>The PXE BIOS uses TFTP to fetch the pxeboot binary (and it will do its >>own=20 >>DHCP, etc. as part of doing that). It writes the binary it downloads >>starting=20 >>at address 0x7c00. Once the download is complete, it jumps to 0x7c00 >>similar=20 >>to how booting from a disk loads the first sector at address 0x7c00 and >>then=20 >>jumps to it. >> >>The PXE calls in libi386 should not be invoked until the loader main() >>routine=20 >>runs: >> >> /* >> * Special handling for PXE and CD booting. >> */ >> if (kargs->bootinfo =3D=3D 0) { >> /* >> * We only want the PXE disk to try to init itself in the below >> * walk through devsw if we actually booted off of PXE. >> */ >> if (kargs->bootflags & KARGS_FLAGS_PXE) >> pxe_enable(kargs->pxeinfo ? PTOV(kargs->pxeinfo) : NULL); >> else if (kargs->bootflags & KARGS_FLAGS_CD) >> bc_add(initial_bootdev); >> } >> >>That enables the PXE devsw driver so that it will do something later when >>main() calls all the devsw init routines: >> >> /* >> * March through the device switch probing for things. >> */ >> for (i =3D 0; devsw[i] !=3D NULL; i++) >> if (devsw[i]->dv_init !=3D NULL) >> (devsw[i]->dv_init)(); >> printf("BIOS %dkB/%dkB available memory\n", bios_basemem / 1024, >>bios_extmem / 1024); >> >>--=20 >>John Baldwin >
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