Re: Problems booting 4.8R PicoBSD

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From
Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk>
Date
15 Jul 2003 09:46:43
Subject
Re: Problems booting 4.8R PicoBSD
Message-ID
4.3.2.7.2.20030715172854.0212a4e0@gid.co.uk

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Hi,

At 16:23 15/7/03, Chuck T. wrote:
>[...]My 4.8R based kernel is booting via PXE using dhcp/tftp/nfs, but
>hanging after
>decompressing the kernel. A packet sniffer shows that it was trying to
>read /pxeroot/etc/fstab.gz and failing that /pxeroot/etc/fstab. I believe
>that means that the kernel didn't find the embedded root file system image
>for some reason. [etc]

Do you have a <wherever_you're_booting_from>/boot/loader.rc? pxeboot
expects that, see pxeboot(8). It may need to contain:

set vfs.root.mountfrom="ufs:/dev/md0c"


or some such. Sorry for the vagueness, I don't have a netbooting pico setup
here right now.

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