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    Issue with PXE booting a diskless bhyve guest

    I've attempted to boot a diskless guest via PXE. Unfortunately, it's not working for me. Here's what I have done and tested successfully. All involved systems are FreeBSD 14.0-RELEASE: NFSv3 setup on guest 1 "NFS server" exports /nfs and all subdirectories with -maproot=0 base.txz, kernel.txz...
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    CARP (dns/dhcp/tftp) network boot.

    Hi, My setup is like following. server1 = primary server setup with carp, it is running the dnsmasq and it is also the gateway for my local network 192.168.1.0/24 server2= secondary server setup with carp, it is also running the dnsmasq (/var/db/dnsmasq.leases is copied from server1) and it is...
    • aabaab
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    • carp dhcp dns dnsmasq pxe
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Networking
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    netboot problem with loader.efi and nfsroot

    I am attempting to boot FreeBSD (base.txz and kernel.txz of 14-CURRENT snapshot) over the network with nfsroot. My DHCP/NFS server is Ubuntu 20.04 and running dnsmasq for DHCP. It boots a legacy BIOS mode client machine with pxeboot and nfsroot without problem. My loader.conf is...
    • micchie
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    • boot loader.conf nfs client nfsroot pxe solved uefi boot
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Networking
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    FreeBSD's Disk installation via PXE boot

    Dear Helpers, I am pretty much new to PXE installation and even System management. (Please forgive me if any term is not vague or incorrect.) Almost for 4 days, I have been struggling to install FreeBSD-12.2-RELEASE-amd64-disc1.iso into the hard disk but I am not sure about how I set the boot...
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    NFSv3 Different client user mapping despite mount from identical devices

    Hello all, I have a set of diskless clients that I want to run off of TFTP + NFS / PXEBOOT To achieve this I have set up an install medium that boots the device , executes a script under systemd(linux) that mounts my FreeBSD 12.1 server and starts copying the files to their new roots. For...
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    Allow setting different root-path options for freebsd DHCP configuration

    From the official wiki pxeboot(8) I could see that the option root-path must be given in order to finish netboot for FreeBSD using NFS mount root directory, for instance: option root-path "nfs://10.0.0.1/FreeBSD"; but in this case, it is only possible to boot a certain version of FreeBSD that...
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    Solved Installing FreeBSD 12.1 via PXE Encounters "LUA ERROR: Can not open /boot/lua/loader.lua: no such file or directory"

    Hello SMEs, I have learned from a Pluralsight course on how to PXE install Linux Distributions, e.g. CentOS7.2. And I succeeded following the guideline of the course, i.e. by setting up a DHCP, TFTP server, and FTP server, then configure the pxelinux.0 file as needed. The process is pretty neat...
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    PXE Boot server

    I am trying to setup a PXE boot server so that I network install FreeBSD and Linux (redhat & centOS). I am doing this on FreeBSD 12.1 I am have FreeBSD setup on a server with ZFS-on-root using tftp-hpa. My question is - Do I have to have a NFS mount for booting FreeBSD? Can I make it a...
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    PXE - TFTP Timeout #5 ACK 2 Problem

    Hallo, I want to make a PXE BSD Install. The DHCP Server is running and is being recognized. But I get a Timeout for TFTP. My Config files: https://nopaste.xyz/?043867399f299a2e#n7iFVMqajs/D2CBIxkIX1Lbkoa46uEMdjA9QmAKWHyo= I tried with Windows Programm "Serva Community" and it worked. It...
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