Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 22:45:35 +0400 (MSD) From: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pxeboot with amd64 vs i386 Message-ID: <20060517224422.N80741@woozle.rinet.ru> In-Reply-To: <20060517180855.X69235@fledge.watson.org> References: <20060517180855.X69235@fledge.watson.org>
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On Wed, 17 May 2006, Robert Watson wrote: RW> I have my first SMP amd64 box at the office now to work with, and thought it RW> was all going to be easy. Sadly not, or at least, not yet. :-) RW> RW> I configured dhcpd, tftpd, and nfs to export the 6.1 install CD from my RW> notebook. All good so far. The problem is as follows: if I insert the 6.1 RW> i386 release CD, it all works great. If I insert the amd64 CD, then I get RW> the following after pxeboot has been going for a bit: RW> RW> (root@bloom.cse.buffalo.edu, Sun May 7 02:16:38 UTC 2006) RW> Can't work out which disk we are booting from.Guessed BIOS device 0xffffffff RW> not found by probes, defaulting to disk0: RW> can't load 'kernel' RW> RW> At that point, lsdev shows the disk devices, but not the pxeboot "disk", RW> which leaves me without a kernel, etc. So something is different between RW> the i386 and amd64 disks, or maybe there's a problem with my BIOS. I was RW> wondering if anyone else had set up a similar configuration and had it work? Well, I can try connecting ATAPI CDROM to our DL145G2 not active yet tomorrow to give it a try. PXE did not work for me either, see previous threads. Sincerely, D.Marck [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- marck@rinet.ru *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------
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