Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 22:18:30 +1000 From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> To: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>, emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: QEMU with network boot Message-ID: <20080507121830.GA81479@k7.mavetju> In-Reply-To: <20080507121437.GB44028@k7.mavetju> References: <20080507060119.GA50020@k7.mavetju> <20080507082108.72C0E5B47@mail.bitblocks.com> <20080507121437.GB44028@k7.mavetju>
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On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 10:14:37PM +1000, Edwin Groothuis wrote: > On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 01:21:08AM -0700, Bakul Shah wrote: > > > I have moved the file /boot/pxeboot to my tftpboot directory, it > > > gets loaded but then QEMU complains about: > > > > > > ......TFTP download complete, but Unable to load file. > > > > > > And restarts. Not sure what goes wrong... > > > > See my message to Freebsd-emulation, dated 23 Apr 2007 > > 12:23:09 PDT. With the patched and recompiled etherboom ROM > > now it gets to pxeboot loader's OK prompt. NFS MOUNT fails > > but it gets further than I remember! > > Thanks for your reply, I've managed to create my new rtl8139.zrom. > And it works like a charm! > > --------------------- 8< ---------------------------------- > Loading 192.168.253.1:/boot/pxeboot ..(PXE)..................................... > ................................................................................ > ................................................................................ > ................................................................................ > ................................................................................ > .......................................................................done > PXE Loader 1.00 > > Building the boot loader arguments > Relocating the loader and the BTX > Starting the BTX loader > > BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01 > Consoles: internal video/keyboard > BIOS drive C: is disk0 > > PXE version 2.1, real mode entry point @9f00:0680 > > int=0000000d err=00000000 efl=00020002 eip=00000916 > eax=0009cb90 ebx=000008eb ecx=00000000 edx=00003c54 > esi=00000000 edi=00000000 ebp=0009cf62 esp=000003d2 > cs=9f00 ds=9f00 es=0000 fs=0000 gs=0000 ss=9cb9 > cs:eip=66 0f 01 97 52 00 0f 20-c0 0c 01 0f 22 c0 66 ff > af 6a 00 66 b8 10 00 8e-d0 89 ec 8e d8 8e c0 8e > ss:esp=00 00 00 00 71 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 e2 f6 09 00 > 00 9f b9 9c 00 00 00 00-00 00 00 00 00 00 02 02 > > BTX halted > --------------------- 8< ---------------------------------- > > Nearly like a charm. Well, the PXE part does work now, but the BTX > part is not good. > > It doesn't matter if I use an pxeboot from an 6.3 system or an 7.0 > system. This happens with both emulators/qemu as with emulators/qemu-devel. > > Any idea where to look now? http://www.mavetju.org/mail/view_message.php?list=freebsd-emulation&id=2550189 of course. I need to start writing things up on this so others will have less troubles than I have :-) Edwin -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.mavetju.org edwin@mavetju.org | Weblog: http://www.mavetju.org/weblog/
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