Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 13:50:25 -0800 From: Christopher Cowart <ccowart@rescomp.berkeley.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: pxeboot fails to load acpi.ko Message-ID: <20060207215025.GA5318@rescomp.berkeley.edu>
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--Kj7319i9nmIyA2yE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hey- I've been working on a project to automate FreeBSD installations over the network, using PXE boot capabilities. I've been following the howtos, as documented starting here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/pxe/index.html and http://www.daemonsecurity.com/pxe/jumpstart.html I'm having a difficult time finding posts from other people who have experienced similar problems. Everything is setup. I'm using a tftpd that can handle large files. DHCPD is configured correctly. The client boots the PXE boot loader, as it should. It then begins loading the kernel. Upon loading the file acpi.ko, the boot hangs.=20 Doing a tcpdump on the traffic, it looks like the machine receives the last packet of acpi.ko, and before it even has a chance to send an ACK, it's done. The twirly status bar stops spinning. The machine is doomed for a hard reboot. I've tried with two very different boxes to ensure it's not a hardware anomoly. The machines boot fine from the installation CDs -- loading acpi.ko. Further, I started with 5.3-REL, stepped up to 5.4-REL, and lastly, 6.0-REL. The problem occurs with all these versions. I'm not sure how to continue debugging this problem. Any tips in terms of troubleshooting or known workarounds would be great. Thanks, Chris --=20 Christopher Cowart Unix Systems Administrator Residential Computing, UC Berkeley "May all your pushes be popped" --Kj7319i9nmIyA2yE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFD6RYhV3SOqjnqPh0RAnlMAJ4u86kmpqwJ+c7OAsFvJ0yC7e7jmQCcCga2 JXH6A3FSJTAEtzmg+lXgNek= =R5P+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Kj7319i9nmIyA2yE--
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