Re: PXE Booting problem

[matthew sporleder <msporleder%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 6:01 PM, Max León <mleon%wirewatchers.com@localhost> 
wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> I wonder if you can help me out here.
> I'm trying to boot a small appliance through PXE to install on it NetBSD.
>
> Here is my dhcpd.conf:
>
> default-lease-time 3600;
> max-lease-time 7200;
> option subnet-mask 255.255.255.0;
> ddns-update-style ad-hoc;
> option domain-name-servers 192.168.1.i
> subnet 192.168.1.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 {
>      option routers 192.168.1.1;
>                range 192.168.1.100 192.168.1.205;
>                option root-path "/tftpboot";
>                filename "/pxeboot_ia32.bin";
> }
>
> I have tftp enabled on inetd and is indeed pointing to /tftpboot on the
> filesystem
>
> Both files are present and pxeboot_ia32.bin has boot options modified so it
> boots to com0.
>
> I can see that the device get's an IP finds the tftp server, downloads the
> pxeboot_ia.bin and reboots.
> But I have no clue on how to instruct the device to load the NetBSD-INSTALL
> that is on the /tftpboot as well.
> The device has tinyBIOS and uses Intel PXE-2.0 ROM.
>
> The output I get on the console after all this exchange is the following:
>
>>> NetBSD/x86 PXE Boot, Revision 5.1 (from NetBSD 5.0.2)
>>> Memory: 555/261120 k
> Press return to boot now, or any key for boot menu
> Starting 0
> type "?" or "help" for help.
>>boot tftp:netbsd-INSTALL
> PXE BIOS Version 2.1
> Using PCI device at bus 0 device 9 function 0
> Ethernet address 00:0d:1b:f7:02
> read header failed: Unknown error: code 60
> boot: Unknown error: code 60
>>quit
>
> Using tcpdump on the server I can see the udp traffic flowing to the device
>
> Any input from anyone more than welcome.

By default netbsd will look for a file named 'netbsd' in the
next-server/root-path.  You can change that if you like and also boot
to a boot.cfg and configure all kinds of crazy stuff.  I did a little
write up here:
http://mspo.com/2009/05/netbooting-netbsd-flexibility-options.html