Remote Boot

[Tobias P. Santos]

Hi Atanu,

you're right.
I've recompiled the diskless kernel and now it's working fine.

I also would like to thank everybody who took time to help me with this
issue. Thank you all!

Best regards,
Tobias.

Atanu Ghosh wrote:
> 
> >From my notes when trying to get diskless booting working:
> 
>  We usually have the firewall and dummynet enabled in our configs. The
>  default is therefore not to allow any packets in or out. This stops
>  the DHCP packets leaving a diskless kernel. Override this default.
> 
> options         IPFIREWALL_DEFAULT_TO_ACCEPT
> 
>         Atanu.
> 
> >>>>> "Tobias" == Tobias P Santos <tpeixoto at widesoft.com.br> writes:
> 
>     Tobias> Hello, I am trying to boot a FreeBSD diskless client with
>     Tobias> no success.  Actually, I can boot the client, the kernel
>     Tobias> is downloaded and begins to boot. Then it tries to reach
>     Tobias> the DHCP/BOOT server, but this never occurs and the
>     Tobias> machine repeats the following messages forever:
> 
>     Tobias> bootpc_call: sosend: 13 state 00000000 DHCP/BOOTP timeout
>     Tobias> for server 255.255.255.255
> 
>     Tobias> I connected both machines (server and client) with a
>     Tobias> crossover cable and ran tcpdump on server. Once the kernel
>     Tobias> is downloaded, there isn't any more talking on the network
>     Tobias> so the client is not asking for a DHCP/BOOTP server as it
>     Tobias> should be, or as it says to be.
> 
>     Tobias> I made these tests with FreeBSD 4.8 and then switched back
>     Tobias> to 4.4 but got the same behaviour with both versions.
> 
>     Tobias> With version 5.0, the kernel was downloaded but it didn't
>     Tobias> boot, so I gave up 5.x.
> 
>     Tobias> The NIC's are Realtek 8139 detected as rl0 on client and
>     Tobias> also on server.  BTW, I also tried an ed0 interface but it
>     Tobias> didn't change anything.
> 
>     Tobias> Anyone could give a hand here? The only thing I can
>     Tobias> imagine is something wrong with diskless kernel, but I've
>     Tobias> compiled with the handbook instructions:
> 
>     Tobias> options BOOTP # Use BOOTP to obtain IP address/hostname
>     Tobias> options BOOTP_NFSROOT # NFS mount root filesystem using
>     Tobias> BOOTP info options BOOTP_COMPAT # Workaround for broken
>     Tobias> bootp daemons.
> 
>     Tobias> Any clues?
> 
>     Tobias> Thank you in advance!  Best regards, -- Tobias.
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