QEMU with network boot

[Bakul Shah]

On Wed, 07 May 2008 01:21:08 PDT Bakul Shah <bakul at bitblocks.com>  wrote:
> On Wed, 07 May 2008 16:01:19 +1000 Edwin Groothuis <edwin at mavetju.org>  wrote
> :
> > On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 01:43:12PM +1000, Edwin Groothuis wrote:
> > > On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 01:22:31PM +1000, Edwin Groothuis wrote:
> 
> See my message to Freebsd-emulation, dated 23 Apr 2007
> 12:23:09 PDT.  With the patched and recompiled etherboom ROM
> now it gets to pxeboot loader's OK prompt. NFS MOUNT fails
> but it gets further than I remember!
> 
> $ qemu-system-x86_64 \
> 	-net tap -net nic,macaddr=52:54:0:12:34:56,model=rtl8139 \
> 	-option-rom pxe-rtl8129.bin -boot n \
> 	-curses img
>    
> NFS MOUNT RPC error: 13                                                      

This was due to a misspelled root-path in my dhcpd.conf.  Now
it boots fine.