Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 22:23:21 -0800 (PST) From: Peter Schmiedeskamp <pschmied@yahoo.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: PXE boot and no kernel/init messages Message-ID: <20040120062321.37190.qmail@web11609.mail.yahoo.com>
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Hello, I'm writing in hopes that someone will recognize the problem I'm seeing and point me in the right direction. I'm currently working on setting up a network booting environment similar to what is described in The Network People, Inc.'s "FreeBSD 5 PXE boot recipe" (http://www.tnpi.biz/computing/freebsd/pxe-netboot.shtml). I'm deviating from the instructions in that I'm pulling my mfsroot image from the server via TFTP rather than NFS. Here's a brief description of what I'm attempting to do: 1. PXE environment loads a TFTP enabled "pxeboot" --- works 2. Fetch kernel from TFTP --- works 3. Fetch custom MFSROOT via TFTP --- works 4. Boot --- have encountered problems here, but also see limited success (see below). Step 4 is where I seem to have problems. If I use an uncompressed mfsroot.gz file that I extract from FreeBSD's mfsroot.flp, I can boot and I eventually see the familiar installation screen. However, no output is written to the screen between the time the kernel loads and the time sysinstall appears on the screen. I suspect the console is only being initialized as a function of the (curses?) library that sysinstall uses? When I use a custom mfsroot (I don't actually intend to run sysinstall at all), I don't see any status messages written to the screen despite the fact that my mfsroot is pulled across the wire properly and that the kernel appears to have loaded. Also, I can boot using kern.flp and my custom mfsroot and I see both kernel and init messages posted to the screen. But nothing when I boot the same kernel/mfsroot over PXE. Is there some way that I must initialize the console to see the normal boot messages? Thank you in advance. -Peter __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Hotjobs: Enter the "Signing Bonus" Sweepstakes http://hotjobs.sweepstakes.yahoo.com/signingbonus
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