Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 20:19:55 +0300 From: "Andrew N. Below" <defan@zenon.net> To: "Rong-en Fan" <grafan@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: using md-mounted ISO as NFS root for PXE booting and installing Message-ID: <0e2101c735a4$b64e6c50$970da8c0@jam.zenon.net> References: <0de801c735a1$aa490f30$970da8c0@jam.zenon.net> <6eb82e0701110902o23ea1fd0i32057a60d3d0439e@mail.gmail.com>
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Hello. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rong-en Fan" <grafan@gmail.com> To: "Andrew N. Below" <defan@zenon.net> Cc: <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Sent: 11 января 2007 г. 20:02 Subject: Re: using md-mounted ISO as NFS root for PXE booting and installing > [...] > > All is fine if we are booting into 4.11 (root mounted from MFS, > > sysintall runs and we able to install OS to local disks via NFS). > > > > But in case of 6.2-RC2 root mounted from NFS, not MFS: > > Does add > > vfs.root.mountfrom="ufs:/dev/md0c" > > in boot/loader.conf from CD help? > Of course, you have to copy the boot/ directory out of cd. My goal is to do ISO-only boot via PXE, so I don't want to extract anything from ISO. :) Anyway, this solution works in loader prompt in 5.x and 6.x also. Thanks! -- Andrew N. Below
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