Re: [Testbed-admins] Booting error in Customizing the Generic Image

[Mike Hibler <mike@flux.utah.edu>]

And since I just made these a few weeks ago, try a FreeBSD 7.2 based pxeboot:

    http://www.emulab.net/downloads/pxeboot72.tar.gz

There were a few changes to the boot code, but not many so I don't expect
it will make a difference.

On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 05:21:21PM -0600, Mike Hibler wrote:
> This failure is not so mysterious.  This is a case of the kernel not finding
> the "aac" device.  Is this the 6.4 "generic" image I pointed you to the other
> day?  That would be odd, because it should be booting a generic kernel that
> would include that driver.  Try putting
> 	load_aac="YES"
> in /boot/loader.conf on the disk.
> 
> But anyway, it got past the boot loader so this tells me it is almost
> certainly an issue with pxeboot and not the disk-based loader.
> 
> Since you don't have a serial console make sure you are using pxeboot.emu-vga
> from that pxeboot62a tarball.
> 
> On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 05:47:45PM -0500, Cheng Cui wrote:
> > OK. I used the "vidconsole" mode. And this time, it fails in the half
> > way. 
> > 
> > But indeed, I have ### edit /mnt/etc/fstab
> > # Device                Mountpoint      FStype  Options         Dump
> > Pass#
> > /dev/aacd0s1b           none            swap    sw              0
> > 0
> > /dev/aacd0s1a           /               ufs     rw              1
> > 1
> > /dev/aacd0s1f           /usr            ufs     rw              2
> > 2
> > /dev/aacd0s1e           /var            ufs     rw              2
> > 2
> > /dev/cd0                /cdrom          cd9660  ro,noauto       0
> > 0
> > md                      /tmp            mfs
> > rw,async,nodev,nosuid,-s256m 0 0
> > 
> > Did I miss something? Please see 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 3:23 PM
> > To: Cheng Cui
> > Cc: 'Mike Hibler'; testbed-admins@flux.utah.edu
> > Subject: Re: [Testbed-admins] Booting error in Customizing the Generic
> > Image
> > 
> > The machine may actually be booted there.  The image is configured to
> > use the serial line as console rather than VGA.  If you don't have a
> > serial
> > line console, go into /boot/loader.conf in the BSD disk image and
> > comment
> > out the "console=comconsole" line.
> > 
> > On Thu, Oct 08, 2009 at 02:46:03PM -0500, Cheng Cui wrote:
> > > 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
> > > 
>