Well, this time it hung there with nothing happens when booted from disk directly. Please refer to the attached picture. Best Regards, Cheng Cui . Frey Computing Services Center . Baton Rouge, LA 70803 -----Original Message----- From: Mike Hibler [mailto:mike@flux.utah.edu] Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2009 11:37 AM To: Cheng Cui Cc: 'Mike Hibler'; testbed-admins@flux.utah.edu Subject: Re: [Testbed-admins] Booting error in Customizing the Generic Image On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 10:58:07AM -0500, Cheng Cui wrote: > Hi Mike, > > The booting process still fails. Please see the attached picture. > > As this loader is a binary file, can I generally install a FreeBSD6.2 or > 6.4 distributions on our Sun box and copy such compiled loader into your > provided images? > Yes, you should be able to. Let's try this first. On the machine that currently doesn't boot, change the BIOS so that it boots from the hard drive rather than the network (PXE). When the machine starts to boot it should print out a menu like: F1: FreeBSD F2: Linux ... This is the boot loader in the MBR. Normally, we don't go through this level of the loader, pxeboot jumps directly to the boot loader that is in the first sector of the partition. If the machine boots when going through the MBR, but not when going through pxeboot, then the problem really is in our pxeboot and not in the disk-based loader that is actually failing. IMPORTANT NOTE: when you get the prompt above, you will have to explicitly hit F1. If you just let it timeout, it will reboot the machine (this is a feature of our special version of the MBR boot loader.) > Best Regards, > > Cheng Cui > . Frey Computing Services Center . Baton Rouge, LA 70803 >
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