Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 17:38:04 -0800 (PST) From: David Lowe <dlowe@sirius.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: diskless operation / netbooting prob Message-ID: <Pine.NXT.3.95q.970318172004.13959A-100000@ds9>
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Hey people - I am testing out the possibility of netbooting our FreeBSD machines. We have a lot of FreeBSD machines with almost no local data being stored on them. We are already doing 90% of the work over NFS - it makes sense to take them one further step, to the netbooting phase. I've read over Jerry Kendall's howto, and the Handbook entry on the subject, and am still having a problem; it doesn't work :( Both the boot server and the diskless client are Pentium 133 machines, with 64MB RAM, and SMC EtherPower 10/100 PCI cards on a 10 megabit network. The server is running 2.2-RELEASE, the client is running 2.2-BETA. After building the nb8390.com loader, putting it on a DOS bootable floppy, and running it, it completely hangs (with no diagnostic) I attempted to see if it was doing network stuff with tcpdump on the server machine, and couldn't see anything (but I'm not a tcpdump genius, so who knows) Here are the significant chunks of my config files... I really hope someone can help me out, David Lowe --- server:/etc/inetd.conf --- bootps dgram udp wait root /usr/libexec/bootpd bootpd /etc/bootptab tftp dgram udp wait root /usr/libexec/tftpd tftpd -l -s /tftpboot --- server:/etc/bootptab --- client:\ :ht=ether:\ :ha=0000c071eee7:\ :sm=255.255.255.0:\ :hn:\ :ds=205.134.226.254:\ :ip=205.134.226.201:\ :gw=205.134.226.254:\ :vm=rfc1048: --- server:/tftpboot/cfg.205.134.226.201 --- rootfs 205.134.226.202:/export/rootfs hostname client.sirius.com --- server:/etc/exports --- /export/rootfs 205.134.226.201 --- client:/usr/src/sys/i386/boot/netboot/Makefile --- CFLAGS= -O2 -DNFS -DROMSIZE=${ROMSIZE} -DRELOC=${RELOCADDR} CFLAGS += -DPCI -DPCI_VENDOR=${PCI_VENDOR} -DPCI_DEVICE=${PCI_DEVICE} CFLAGS += -DPCI_CLASS=${PCI_CLASS} NS8390= -DINCLUDE_WD -DWD_DEFAULT_MEM=0xD0000 CLEANFILES+= netboot.com CLEANFILES+= makerom start2.ro 3c509.o ns8390.o LDFLAGS+= -N -T ${RELOCADDR} -e _start -nostdlib NOSHARED= YES NOMAN= STRIP= ROMSIZE=16384 RELOCADDR=0x90000
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