Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 06:42:39 -0500 From: Dan Pelleg <daniel+bsd@pelleg.org> To: "John Morgan Salomon" <john@zog.net> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PXE Booting 5.2.1-RC2 on Thinkpad X31 Message-ID: <u2sisi7uu6o.fsf@pelleg.org> In-Reply-To: <20040215223550.M68875@zog.net> (John Morgan Salomon's message of "Sun, 15 Feb 2004 22:44:05 %2B0000") References: <20040215223550.M68875@zog.net>
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"John Morgan Salomon" <john@zog.net> writes: > Hi there, > > I've got 4.9-RELEASE running on my Thinkpad, and am trying to netboot > 5.2.1-RC2. > > The laptop has no floppy or cdrom; I'd previously managed to install > a pre-release 5.2 on a separate hard drive, but it's pretty unstable, > doesn't like ACPI, has trouble finding devices, hence the 5.2.1-RC2. > > I've been trying various combinations of tftpboot and nfs to get 5.2 > booting on the thing--I have finally gotten the laptop to boot the > contents of the 5.2.1-RC2 kernel and mfsroot floppies, and gotten > to a setup screen: > > -> pxeboot > include /pxeroot/boot/device.hints > load /pxeroot/kernel > /lad -t mfs_root /pxeroot/mfsroot > > However, no matter what I do, the machine inevitably freezes after a few > seconds. There's no error messages, I can't get an emergency shell open, > nothing. > > Can anyone give me some hints as to what I might be doing wrong? Has anyone > gotten 5.x running nicely on a Thinkpad X31? Any ideas would be appreciated. > > Cheers, > > -John > There are some hints on: http://gerda.univie.ac.at/freebsd-laptops/ also search the mobile@ list (or post a question there). I got it to install something around 5.1 by using a USB CD-ROM. It should also work to boot off the CDROM and do the rest of the install over FTP. -- Dan Pelleg
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