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pxeboot, bsd.rd, etcetera.
Bonjour. Long time no visit.
I have an ALIX (PC Engines). I am doing an install from my desktop over the network to the ALIX CF card. It is not working. I have only spent several hours so far so I must persist ... I think I have the DHCP and PXE bit sorted. I have a tftpboot directory in my desktop root. This contains a copy of the pxeboot file. When I access the ALIX via the serial port (cu) and turn it on it talks to the DHCP server and uses pxeboot. It tries to load "bsd" but doesn't find it. After several tries it stays with a boot> prompt. If I enter "boot bsd.rd" at the prompt I get: booting tftp:bsd.rd: "numbers" "numbers" entry point at "numbers" Ã* Yes, that is an "i" with an accent. The "numbers" are alphanumeric and look like memory addresses. I have tried to write a boot.conf that says "boot bsd.rd" and put it in /tftpboot and also in /etc. It doesn't seem to have any effect. Right now though I seem to able to at least use boot> interactively and am more interested in getting bsd.rd to run. Any help appreciated. Best wishes. P.S. If someone can point me to the man page that shows how to set up the global parameters for dhcpd.conf that would be bonza. http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=dhcpd.conf |
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http://openbsd.org/faq/faq6.html#PXE As I recall, configuration is reasonably simple:
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I tried it in /tftpboot and also /etc. I never concatenated the various bits of documentation. :] It would explain why everything else seemed to work (except boot.conf). I haven't tried it but I am very sure you are correct. Best wishes. |
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This might help display some of the confusion:
"Note that /etc/boot.conf is only needed if the kernel you wish to boot from is not named bsd, or other pxeboot defaults are not as you need them (for example, you wish to use a serial console)." http://openbsd.org/faq/faq6.html#PXE That's the URI that ocicat referenced. Variously throughout the docs it is said to go in /tftpboot or /etc. Best wishes. |
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Looks a bit like a bug in the documentation - It might be a good idea to make a little noise about it on the openbsd mailing list, or post a PR about it.
Us BSDers are rather proud of our documentation: If there is a problem with it, the projects would like to know about them so they can be fixed.
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FWIW, the documentation is accurate, it does however not cater to the skimmer. Unfortunately (I guess) most people frantically searching for a solution are speed reading. Pick a long man page and read the whole thing - got a spare hour? :] There are though incorrect hyperlinks in the online manpages which is another matter altogether ... Best wishes. P.S. I refuse to get involved with www@, etcetera. OpenBSD + Spam = me doing something else. |
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