Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:33:13 +0200 From: Marco Walraven <m.walraven@terantula.com> To: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Marco Walraven <m.walraven@terantula.com> Subject: Re: RELENG_7 pxeboot fails on SuperMicro 6012 Message-ID: <20080616133313.GE27681@cotton.terantula.com> In-Reply-To: <20080613111249.GA51360@eos.sc1.parodius.com> References: <20080613103000.GB27681@cotton.terantula.com> <20080613111249.GA51360@eos.sc1.parodius.com>
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On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 04:12:49AM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 12:30:00PM +0200, Marco Walraven wrote: > > I ran into the following problem trying to pxeboot RELENG_7 on a SuperMicro 6012 system. RELENG_6 just works fine and the same RELENG_7 release pxeboots fine when I use a VMware host. > > > > Can't work out which disk we are booting from. > > Guessed BIOS device 0xffffff not fund by probes, defaulting to disk0: > > > > can't load 'kernel' > > > > None of the setting I have specified in /boot/loader.conf especially vfs.root.mountfrom="ufs:/dev/md0c" pop up when asking for the configured variables. > > > > Any clues ? > > http://jdc.parodius.com/freebsd/pxeboot_serial_install.html > > Be sure to read this, and see Item #10. Thanks for the quick hint Jeremy; booting on that old piece of hardware did indeed succeed using an uncompressed mfsroot. Marco -- Terantula - Industrial Strength Open Source phone:+31 64 3232 400 / www: http://www.terantula.com / pgpkey: E7EE7A46 pgp fingerprint: F2EE 122D 964C DE68 7380 6F95 3710 7719 E7EE 7A46
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