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