PXE install hangs on 6.3, 7.0

[Anders Nordby]

Hi,

On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 02:42:43PM +0000, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
>>Do you have any possibility to try PXE-installing amd64, with newer
>>releases? I am trying on an older HP DL 380 now, it has the same
>>problem with 6.3 and 7.0.
> Do you have the hints compiled into the kernel or lying around
> there in the tftp area?
> Could you check the logs if loader (successfully) reads it?

I have device.hints in /tftpboot/boot/device.hints. Checking the ngrep
logs, it does not seem to be loaded.

The kernel is the kernel from the kern?.flp files in 
ftp.freebsd.org:/pub/FreeBSD/releases/<arch>/<release>/floppies.

> If it does, swapping hint.sio.0 and hint.sio.1 might be worth a try.

Swap com1 and com2, why? I've got both the display and com1 (virtual serial
port) output visible already.

By the way: I found out I have to press enter to continue the output
from show. Here it is completely:

FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1
(root at cache12.finn.no, Tue Jan  8 14:54:28 CET 2008)
pxe_open: server addr: 192.168.122.1
pxe_open: server path: /tftpboot
pxe_open: gateway ip:  192.168.122.1
Loading Kernel...
/kernel text=0x74ab88 data=0xf28d8+0x721+0x8+0x93b3f]
Loading mfsroot...
booting...
Installing snapshot - anders at fupp.net
LINES=24
acpi_load=YES
boot.netif.gateway=192.168.122.1
boot.netif.hwaddr=00:12:79:cf:57:33
boot.netif.ip=192.168.122.14
boot.netif.netmask=255.255.255.0
boot.nfsroot.nfshandle=X6c23f14397ac0fb00c00000000b0120076e85dc3000000000000000000000000X
boot.nfsroot.path=/tftpboot
boot.nfsroot.server=192.168.122.1
boot_serial=YES
comconsole_speed=9600
console=comconsole
currdev=pxe0:
dhcp.host-name=
hint.acpi.0.oem=HP    
hint.acpi.0.revision=2
nfs_load=YES                                            
smbios.bios.reldate=04/26/2006                          
smbios.bios.vendor=HP
smbios.bios.version=P51
smbios.chassis.maker=HP
smbios.chassis.serial=B840T9VRB0LO    
smbios.chassis.tag=                                
smbios.socket.enabled=1
smbios.socket.populated=2
smbios.system.maker=HP
smbios.system.product=ProLiant DL380 G4
smbios.system.serial=B840T9VRB0LO    
smbios.system.uuid=33373338-3232-4238-3430-543956524230
vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/md0c

There it stops. I don't get any more data from ngrep after getting to
the end of show's data.

Bye,

-- 
Anders.