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Old January 23rd, 2012, 10:22
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Default Install 9.0 release via PXE
I have pxe install server with syslinux. Works fine for both i386 and amd64 FreeBSD 8.2 with that conf.

Code:
label fb82
  menu label FreeBSD 8.2
  linux memdisk
  initrd http://1.200.0.1/images/fb82.iso
  append iso raw nfsroot=1.200.0.1:/data/tftpboot/freebsd/8.2

label fb82_64
  menu label FreeBSD 8.2 64-bit
  linux memdisk
  initrd http://1.200.0.1/images/fb82_64.iso
  append iso raw nfsroot=1.200.0.1:/data/tftpboot/freebsd/64/8.2
FreeBSD 9.0 amd64 can't boot.
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Old January 25th, 2012, 21:41
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I'm having the same issue.

It stops at:

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Trying to mount root from cd9660:/dev/iso9660/FREEBSD_INSTALL [ro]...
mountroot: waiting for device /dev/iso9660/FREEBSD_INSTALL ...
Mounting from cd9660:/dev/iso9660/FREEBSD_INSTALL failed with error 19.

Loader variables:
  vfs.root.mountfrom=cd9660:/dev/iso9660/FREEBSD_INSTALL
  vfs.root.mountfrom.options=ro

Manual root filesystem specification:
  <fstype>:<device> [options]
    Mount <device> using filesystem <fstype>
    and with the specified (optional) option list.

   eg. ufs:/dev/da0s1a
       zfs:tank
       cd9660:/dev/acd0 ro
         (which is equivalent to: mount -t cd9660 -o ro /dev/acd0 /)

  ?             List valid disk boot devices
  .             Yield 1 second (for background tasks)
  <empty line>  Abort manual input

mountroot> ?   

List of GEOM managed disk devices:
  ada0

mountroot>
Anyone have any ideas?
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Old February 6th, 2012, 11:05
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I'm experiencing the same problem.
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Old February 6th, 2012, 11:10
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It's an old article but should still contain some valid pointers.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO.../articles/pxe/
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Old February 6th, 2012, 11:22
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It's an old article but should still contain some valid pointers.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO.../articles/pxe/
This article is about creating nfs root and bootstrapping for pxe boot. I'm trying to use the FreeBSD 9.0 installation ISO image (FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-amd64-bootonly.iso) to install freebsd FreeBSD via pxe.
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Old February 7th, 2012, 08:37
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I didn't say you should use it literally, I said there are some pointers.

Besides, it's a jumpserver. Jumpservers are used to PXE boot a machine and run an installer.
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Old February 8th, 2012, 11:00
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Actually, the document does not mention booting from *-bootonly CD.

The point is, that this pxe configuration works (sysinstall menu appears after boot)
Code:
label freebsd82
  menu label FreeBSD amd64
  kernel memdisk
  initrd images/FreeBSD-8.2-RELEASE-amd64-bootonly.iso
  append iso raw
and this does not (ending with error above)
Code:
label freebsd90
  menu label FreeBSD amd64
  kernel memdisk
  initrd images/FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE-amd64-bootonly.iso
  append iso raw
Supposing this procedure was supported in 8.2, I think this a bug in the 9.0 *-bootonly installation media.
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Old February 10th, 2012, 23:16
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Have any of you had any success appending "bigraw" instead of "raw"? I was having this exact problem until I changed the option to bigraw. I will say that I'm using mfsBSD, therefore probably a much smaller image than those loading a copy of the distribution CD. Just putting it out there, in case it helps someone.

http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.p....2C_safeint.29
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Old February 11th, 2012, 01:57
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Just tried it in VirtualBox. It gets to "Building the boot loader arguments", shows the spinner slash, and then stops with the CPU at 100%.
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Old February 13th, 2012, 08:44
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Have any of you had any success appending "bigraw" instead of "raw"? I was having this exact problem until I changed the option to bigraw. I will say that I'm using mfsBSD, therefore probably a much smaller image than those loading a copy of the distribution CD. Just putting it out there, in case it helps someone.

http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.p....2C_safeint.29
It tries to mountroot from CD, maybe 'nfsroot' doesn't read.
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Old February 13th, 2012, 22:28
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Have any of you had any success appending "bigraw" instead of "raw"?
In my case passing the 'bigraw' option instead of the 'raw' option to memdisk does not seem make any difference... with both options I get the same stop that rhlampe posted above.

Is there perhaps some option that needs be entered at the loader command line?
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Old February 14th, 2012, 01:48
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http://stefankonarski.de/content/fre...l-installieren in german, but quite easy to understand.
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Old February 14th, 2012, 09:25
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http://stefankonarski.de/content/fre...l-installieren in german, but quite easy to understand.
Yes, but if you want to have 8.2 i386 and amd64 and 9.0 i386 and amd64 PXE boot for install.

You can only have one option root-path in DHCP server. Or every time you must change config and restart service.
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Yes, but if you want to have 8.2 i386 and amd64 and 9.0 i386 and amd64 PXE boot for install.

You can only have one option root-path in DHCP server. Or every time you must change config and restart service.
You can simply configure several different groups for the hosts in DHCP config.
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Old February 14th, 2012, 16:46
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http://stefankonarski.de/content/fre...l-installieren in german, but quite easy to understand.
This tutorial also uses NFS root. I'm trying to install directly from bootonly iso via PXE
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Have any of you had any success appending "bigraw" instead of "raw"? I was having this exact problem until I changed the option to bigraw. I will say that I'm using mfsBSD, therefore probably a much smaller image than those loading a copy of the distribution CD. Just putting it out there, in case it helps someone.

http://www.syslinux.org/wiki/index.p....2C_safeint.29
The "bigraw" option ain't working for me.
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Old February 15th, 2012, 22:05
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I will say that I'm using mfsBSD, therefore probably a much smaller image than those loading a copy of the distribution CD. Just putting it out there, in case it helps someone.
Booting the mfsBSD ISO from syslinux works great!
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Old February 27th, 2012, 04:06
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Default Same issue for me as well
Even after I added the following to loader.conf...

echo 'vfs.root.mountfrom="ufs:/dev/md0"' >> /tmp/img/boot/loader.conf

Where /tmp/img is path to my /dev/md0 disk image I later zip and use with PXE Linux based PXE/SysLinux/TFTP.

When the failure to find the /dev/md0 device as vfs.root.mountfrom returns error 19, and drops to the 'OK' prompt. Listing the available boot devices, md0 does not exist.
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I have a blog entry that addresses some of this:

http://blogs.freebsdish.org/brd/2012...ing-freebsd-9/

Sorry it does not address the use of syslinux, just the native FreeBSD tools.
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I can't even believe this ISO approach isn't the standard for most of you; once you go PXE, you simply do not go back to NFS!

That said, thanks to all who tried to help out with this issue. It took a lot of refined searching to finally find the solution to this, but this blog post seemed to do it for me:

http://zewaren.net/site/?q=node/82

(The basic idea being, fetch a stock mfsBSD ISO, build a smallish 32MB disk image, and copy the boot/root bits over. Then, importantly, you boot the image via MemDisk using the parameters: "harddisk raw".)
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Having to jump through so many hoops to PXE install is the main reason I am not experimenting more with FreeBSD.
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