freebsd-hackers Digest, Vol 594, Issue 5

[Pokala, Ravi]

>Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2014 11:18:50 -0400
>From: John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org>
>To: "Sinha, Prokash" <psinha at panasas.com>
>Cc: "freebsd-hackers at freebsd.org" <freebsd-hackers at freebsd.org>
>Subject: Re: PXE boot
>Message-ID: <201409051118.50416.jhb at freebsd.org>
>Content-Type: Text/Plain;  charset="iso-8859-2"
>
>On Thursday, September 04, 2014 5:23:19 pm Sinha, Prokash wrote:
>>On 9/4/14 2:22 PM, "Sinha, Prokash" <psinha at panasas.com> wrote:
>>>Yeah, something going on that I don't understand. I defined that macro,
>>>and for quick verify -
>>>make -v
>>>Warning: Object directory not changed from original
>>>/.automount/nfs.paneast.panasas.com/root/home/psinha/psinha-bug-pa/src/f
>>>re
>>>e
>>>bsd-c/sys/boot/i386/pxeldr
>>>cc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe  -ffreestanding
>>>-mpreferred-stack-boundary=2  -mno-mmx -mno-3dnow -mno-sse -mno-sse2
>>>-mno-sse3 -m32 -march=i386 -DALWAYS_SERIAL  -c pxeldr.S
>>>cc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe  -ffreestanding
>>>-mpreferred-stack-boundary=2  -mno-mmx -mno-3dnow -mno-sse -mno-sse2
>>>-mno-sse3 -m32 -march=i386 -DALWAYS_SERIAL   -nostdlib -m elf_i386_fbsd
>>>-N
>>>-e start -Ttext 0x7c00 -Wl,-S,--oformat,binary -o pxeldr pxeldr.o
>>>make: don't know how to make pxeboot.8. Stop
>>>
>>>==> The variable is defined and the correct flag is included in the cc
>>>...
>>>
>>>
>>>But I still don't get the messages from pxe_enable or pxe_init...
>>>
>>>Need to sit back and look further...
>>>
>>>John, much appreciated for the help...
>
>Weird.  Are you using COM1 at 9600?  Aside from that, do you get logs of
>calls
>once interact() starts and loader.conf is parsed?

Prokash and I work together, so I can answer this one. :-)

We are using COM1, 9600-8-n-1. We get the normal loader splash-screen /
menu on the serial port.

-Ravi

>--
>John Baldwin