Date: Sun, 25 May 2008 17:23:05 GMT From: Martin Johnson <martin@martinshouse.com> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: i386/123981: You can't usefully PXEBOOT the 7.0-RELEASE-i386-livefs.iso image Message-ID: <200805251723.m4PHN5q6016217@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200805251730.m4PHU2qV056292@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 123981 >Category: i386 >Synopsis: You can't usefully PXEBOOT the 7.0-RELEASE-i386-livefs.iso image >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-i386 >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: change-request >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sun May 25 17:30:01 UTC 2008 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Martin Johnson >Release: 7.0-RELEASE >Organization: n/a >Environment: 7.0-RELEASE-i386-livefs.iso >Description: You cannot usefully PXEBOOT the LiveFS CDROM image. This is a pity, because it would be useful as a rescue boot image for computers without CDROM drives. To be strictly accurate, you _can_ tweak the image to PXEBOOT so that the FreeBSD installer will run, by editing loader.conf and decompressing mfsroot.gz (see http://jdc.parodius.com/freebsd/pxeboot_serial_install.html ) but this does not get you very far. The problem is that when you choose the installer's menu option to launch the rescue shell, there is no option to access the rest of the ISO image files over NFS. It only works from CDROM, which you don't have if you're PXE booting over the network. >How-To-Repeat: Use any machine with PXEBOOT support, as per http://jdc.parodius.com/freebsd/pxeboot_serial_install.html . You will need a working FreeBSD machine to serve the image file from, with working DHCP, TFTP and NFS services. Once the FreeBSD installer is running, select the rescue shell. It won't be able to find the files it needs. >Fix: The FreeBSD installer already allows you to install FreeBSD by accessing the installation files over NFS. It should be possible to access the LiveFS CD files in the same way. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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