Hello Mike,
The good news is that FreeBSD6.4 could be booted through the local disk,
if avoided the pxeboot process.
The bad news is that this pxeboot72 still have the same problem with
previous pxeboot62a. Please refer to the attached picture.
Well, it looks similar problem had happened before on some advanced
boxes like Dell PowerEdge, with such kind of pxeboot.
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 6:31 PM
To: Cheng Cui
Cc: 'Mike Hibler'; testbed-admins@flux.utah.edu
Subject: Re: [Testbed-admins] Booting error in Customizing the Generic
Image
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
> > >
>
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