On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 17:27:21 -0400, Ditch Brodie wrote:

> I'm trying to rebuild my 6.2-STABLE kernel to handle some
> diskless workstations and I need BOOTP, BOOTP_NFSROOT and
> BOOTP_COMPAT in the kernel to do this. So I rebuilt the
> kernel, several times now with these options. But each
> time when I reboot the message:
>
> DHCP/BOOTP TIMEOUT FOR SERVER 255.255.255.255
>
> scroll indefinetly and the machine will no longer boot.
> I can reboot using the kernel.old but not with the new
> kernel with these options in it. I've tried several
> times on two differnt machines and end up with the
> same results each time.
>
> What am I missing?

Okay, a little furher research and it appears that

options BOOTP
options BOOTP_NFSROOT
options BOOTP_COMPAT

have been deprecated. And if I'm using PXEBOOT then I
shouldn't even need these in my kernel. The trouble is all
the available docs on diskless setup in FreeBSD are outdated,
at least the ones I can find, including the handbook.

If anyone has some solid advice on diskless setup using
FreeBSD-6.2-STABLE I'd appreciate a link or two.

>>>>> "Ditch" == Ditch Brodie writes:

Ditch> If anyone has some solid advice on diskless setup using
Ditch> FreeBSD-6.2-STABLE I'd appreciate a link or two.

This may not be precisely what you want, but I worked out how to
PXE-boot FreeBSD from a Windows server running RIS or WDS (in
RIS-compatibility mode):

http://web.irtnog.org/doc/how-to/fre...nstall-pxe-wds

You should be able to adapt this to a Linux- or FreeBSD-based
DHCP/TFTP server fairly easily. Be sure to read the linked articles,
as they have additional information.

Best wishes,
Matthew

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