Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 18:34:44 -0500 (CDT) From: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net> To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: PXE booting a 5.4-RC2 system ... Message-ID: <200504172334.j3HNYjVG056909@aurora.sol.net>
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So I'm playing with 5.4-RC2. I can get the system to PXE boot into a normal full base system environment just fine, all the way to multiuser. However, for system installs, we've historically PXE booted the boot floppy images and then proceeded to do NFS or FTP based installs. So I set off to do this with 5.4-RC2. I pulled the contents out of boot.flp, kern1.flp, and kern2.flp and stuffed them all on one of our boot servers. /boot/5.4X-i386-load 358 # ls -al total 3716 drwxr-xr-x 4 root wheel 512 Apr 17 18:14 . drwxr-xr-x 10 root wheel 512 Apr 17 18:07 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 root operator 512 Apr 10 04:26 .snap -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 138998 Apr 10 04:26 acpi.ko.gz drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 512 Apr 10 04:26 boot -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1425408 Apr 10 04:26 kernel.gz.aa -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1060816 Apr 10 04:26 kernel.gz.ab -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 16384 Apr 10 04:26 kernel.gz.boot -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 91 Apr 10 04:26 kernel.gz.split -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1081726 Apr 10 04:26 mfsroot.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 69 Apr 17 18:10 notes Same setup works fine with /boot/5.4X-i386-pxe1, which is just the entire 5.4-RC2 distribution extracted to that directory. Going back to the above setup: The client PC, a Gigabyte 7VM400-RZ with an AMD 2700 XP and 512MB RAM, a CD drive, and an Adaptec 2940U2W controller, starts loading the PXE loader just fine. PXE Loader 1.00 Building the boot loader arguments Relocating the loader and the BTX Starting the BTX loader BTX loader 1.00 BTX is version 1.01 Console: internal video/keyboard BIOS drive A: is disk0 PXE version 2.1, real mode entry point @9e2b:00f6 BIOS 640kB/490432kB available memory FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1 (root@harlow.cse.buffalo.edu, Sun Apr 10 04:50:34 UTC 2005) pxe_open: server addr: XXXXXXXXXXXX pxe_open: server path: /boot/5.4X-i386-load pxe_open: gateway ip: XXXXXXXXXXXXX Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf panic: free: guard1 fail @ 0x54a7c from /usr/src/lib/libstand/gzipfs.c:192 --> Press a key on the console to reboot <-- So I figure maybe it's a bug or maybe I need to tweak something. Anyone have a clue which is the correct answer? Thanks, ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN) With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.
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