Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2021 07:19:08 +0000 (UTC) From: Roderick <hruodr@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Diskless with 12.x not anymore possible Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.23.453.2101300716030.961@fbsd.local> In-Reply-To: <aa4062f5-6f45-6c82-ee12-4a169afccabb@nber.org> References: <alpine.BSF.2.23.453.2101291645190.1762@fbsd.local> <aa4062f5-6f45-6c82-ee12-4a169afccabb@nber.org>
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Thanks! I have also an Intel Atom (amd64) that boots FreeBSD 12.2. The problem is with a AMD Geode LX800 (i386), without any drive. It seems problems arise for some systems, for other not. Rod. On Fri, 29 Jan 2021, Daniel Feenberg wrote: > > > On Fri, 29 Jan 2021, Roderick wrote: > >> >> Is there someone booting diskless? > > We boot a dozen FreeBSD systems diskless to 12.0. I am no longer involved > but I asked collegue Alex Aminoff who has done our recent upgrades. Here is > his report: > > We have not had any trouble booting 12.0 diskless. What we did is take > our 11.3 installation and upgraded it using freebsd-update . We had to > do it carefully using the -b <basedir> flag. > > In out boot directory, we have: > > -r-xr-xr-x 3 root wheel 372736 Dec 23 12:02 boot/loader_lua > -r-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 488960 Dec 23 12:02 boot/loader_lua.efi > -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 2402 Dec 23 12:02 boot/lua/loader.lua > > Hope this is of some help. We do like booting diskless and want to thank > whoever at FreeBSD keeps it an option for us. > >> >> Since the introducction of the wonderfull, coll lua to the loader I >> get the error: >> >> ERROR: cannot open /boot/lua/loader.lua: no such file or directory >> >> With 12.0 I managed once to boot using the pxeboot of 11.2, but that >> does not work anymore. >> >> Do someone boot diskless? >> >> I thank for any hint >> Rod. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> >
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