I have my first SMP amd64 box at the office now to work with, and thought it was all going to be easy. Sadly not, or at least, not yet. :-) I configured dhcpd, tftpd, and nfs to export the 6.1 install CD from my notebook. All good so far. The problem is as follows: if I insert the 6.1 i386 release CD, it all works great. If I insert the amd64 CD, then I get the following after pxeboot has been going for a bit: (root@bloom.cse.buffalo.edu, Sun May 7 02:16:38 UTC 2006) 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' At that point, lsdev shows the disk devices, but not the pxeboot "disk", which leaves me without a kernel, etc. So something is different between the i386 and amd64 disks, or maybe there's a problem with my BIOS. I was wondering if anyone else had set up a similar configuration and had it work? Robert N M Watson
On Wed, 17 May 2006, Robert Watson wrote: RW> I have my first SMP amd64 box at the office now to work with, and thought it RW> was all going to be easy. Sadly not, or at least, not yet. :-) RW> RW> I configured dhcpd, tftpd, and nfs to export the 6.1 install CD from my RW> notebook. All good so far. The problem is as follows: if I insert the 6.1 RW> i386 release CD, it all works great. If I insert the amd64 CD, then I get RW> the following after pxeboot has been going for a bit: RW> RW> (root@bloom.cse.buffalo.edu, Sun May 7 02:16:38 UTC 2006) RW> Can't work out which disk we are booting from.Guessed BIOS device 0xffffffff RW> not found by probes, defaulting to disk0: RW> can't load 'kernel' RW> RW> At that point, lsdev shows the disk devices, but not the pxeboot "disk", RW> which leaves me without a kernel, etc. So something is different between RW> the i386 and amd64 disks, or maybe there's a problem with my BIOS. I was RW> wondering if anyone else had set up a similar configuration and had it work? Well, I can try connecting ATAPI CDROM to our DL145G2 not active yet tomorrow to give it a try. PXE did not work for me either, see previous threads. Sincerely, D.Marck [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- marck@rinet.ru *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > I have my first SMP amd64 box at the office now to work with, and thought it > was all going to be easy. Sadly not, or at least, not yet. :-) > > I configured dhcpd, tftpd, and nfs to export the 6.1 install CD from my > notebook. All good so far. The problem is as follows: if I insert the 6.1 > i386 release CD, it all works great. If I insert the amd64 CD, then I get the > following after pxeboot has been going for a bit: > > (root@bloom.cse.buffalo.edu, Sun May 7 02:16:38 UTC 2006) > 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' > > At that point, lsdev shows the disk devices, but not the pxeboot "disk", which > leaves me without a kernel, etc. So something is different between the i386 > and amd64 disks, or maybe there's a problem with my BIOS. I was wondering if > anyone else had set up a similar configuration and had it work? > > Robert N M WatsonI had similar experience, i recompiled a fresh pxeboot, and it's ok now. danny