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Date:      Fri, 08 Feb 2008 08:29:30 +0100
From:      Erik Cederstrand <erik@cederstrand.dk>
To:        Rek Jed <rekjed@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: pxeboot, TFTP only, NFS MOUNT RPC error: 60, timeout
Message-ID:  <47AC04DA.8020504@cederstrand.dk>
In-Reply-To: <47AB9542.70406@gmail.com>
References:  <47AB4F00.1080307@gmail.com> <47AB7DBF.8030302@locolomo.org> <47AB9542.70406@gmail.com>

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Rek Jed skrev:
> 
> I've been playing with thinbsd (http://www.thinbsd.org/) a while back.
> It also boots from tftp without nfs and their boot loader works fine
> (boots straight away).  Latest thinbsd is based on 5.4 so maybe it broke
> in 6.x?  For a workaround I used pxeboot from thinbsd with my 6.3
> jumpstart setup and it seems to work fine.  However this is quite dirty.

I agree that building a boot loader for TFTP should work on current 
sources, but what makes you think using an old boot loader is dirty? 
It's just a utility to load a kernel from the network. It's not like it 
will affect your system when it's installed.

Erik (Cederstrand)



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