PXE install hangs on 6.3, 7.0

[Bjoern A. Zeeb]

On Wed, 9 Jan 2008, Anders Nordby wrote:

Hi,

> I read Stefan Lambrev's mail about PXE problems on this list with
> interest, as I've had my own trying to PXE install a HP Proliant DL 580.
>
> It seems that my installation hangs right after the end of loader.rc. I

So loader ist laoded and working and you get output from that?


> do not get any kernel output or sysinstall messages. This happens with
> FreeBSD/amd64 6.3-RC2 and 7.0-RC1, but not with 6.2.
>
> Any ideas?

Do you have a serial console to paste what you get?

Can you try a show at the end of loader.rc before boot? Would boot -Dh
help?

I am just blindly trying to get more information as what you say is a
bit vague.

/bz

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Bjoern A. Zeeb                                 bzeeb at Zabbadoz dot NeT
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