On Wed, Jan 01, 2003 at 05:47:42PM +0100, Sven Hazejager wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to get FreeBSD 5.0-RC2 installed on a Thinkpad X21 laptop > without floppy or cd-rom drive. I'm booting the installation from PXE. > Note that this procedure works with 4.7, but I haven't found any > specific documentation for a PXE install of 5.0. > > On the server: > > tftpd: /tftpboot contains pxeboot (from the ISO). > > dhcpd root-path points to "/usr/local/pxe-5.0" > > /usr/local/pxe-5.0 contains: > > ./mfsroot.gz > ./kernel > ./boot > ./boot/loader > ./boot/loader.rc > > $ cat ./boot/loader.rc > echo Loading kernel... > load /kernel > echo Loading mfsroot... > load -t mfs_root /mfsroot > set vfs.root.mountfrom="ufs:/dev/md0c" > autoboot 10
For the archives, this is way too much work. Instead point tftp and NFS at the mounted ISO and you're done. > The above works in getting the installation program to run. I'm using an > NFS share of the complete 5.0-RC2 ISO as media source for installation. > The installation program finishes without error, asks for a root password > and such, but after reboot, the created slice is not bootable: > > "Error loading operating system" > > I'm using the default DOS MBR. > > Any suggestions? Unfortunatly, I don't have any real ideas here. Off hand, this doesn't sound like the sort of problem PXE could cause. It's just not involved with that part of the process. Are you sure the kernel and loader you used were the right ones? -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4
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