Hello, I'm trying to boot an IMB x335 server via PXE. I "succeeded" with 4.11: it booted up to a timeout in mpt (onboard LSI SCSI) followed by a panic shortly after /stand/sysinstall starts and prints "probing devices". Since RHEL3 boots just fine from a disk attached to the very same controller I wanted to give 5.x a try, and this is what I get from an attempt to boot 5.3-RELEASE floppies with 5.3-p5 pxeboot compiled with tftp support. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? I can provide part numbers, exact BIOS versions, whatever is deemed relevant. Transcribed from the console, I don't have serial console here: BIOS drive A: is disk0 BIOS drive C: is disk1 PXE version 2.1, real mode entry point @9856:00d6 BIOS 554kB/523184kB available memory FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1 (root@hans.zoom-int.cz, Mon Mar 21 ...) pxe_open: server addr: 10.0.0.6 pxe_open: server path: /var/run/tftpboot/5.3-RELEASE pxe_open: gateway ip: 10.0.0.1 Console: internal video/keyboard BIOS drive A: is disk0 BIOS drive C: is disk1 BIOS 554kB/523184kB available memory FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1 (root@hans.zoom-int.cz, Mon Mar 21 ...) Can't work out which disk we are booting from. Guessed BIOS device 0xffffffff not found by probes, defaulting to disk0: can't load 'kernel' Type '?' for... OK Also of interest, ls throws input/output error for "/" and lsdev reports no pxe devices. BTW, this is contents of the "root-path" directory: root@edna run/tftpboot/5.3-RELEASE 1047:0 # pwd /var/run/tftpboot/5.3-RELEASE root@edna run/tftpboot/5.3-RELEASE 1048:0 # find . -type f | sort ./acpi.ko.gz ./boot/beastie.4th.gz ./boot/defaults/loader.conf.gz ./boot/device.hints.gz ./boot/frames.4th.gz ./boot/loader ./boot/loader.4th.gz ./boot/loader.conf ./boot/loader.help.gz ./boot/loader.rc ./boot/pxeboot ./boot/screen.4th.gz ./boot/support.4th.gz ./kernel.gz ./kernel.gz.aa ./kernel.gz.ab ./kernel.gz.boot ./kernel.gz.split ./mfsroot.gz root@edna run/tftpboot/5.3-RELEASE 1049:0 # -- How many Vietnam vets does it take to screw in a light bulb? You don't know, man. You don't KNOW. Cause you weren't THERE. http://bash.org/?255991