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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