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    Installation via PXE/TFTP/NFS doesn't work

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      mkuron
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      I followed the PXE installation guide at http://devwiki.pfsense.org/NetBootSoekrisEmbedded . It works fine for the 1.2-RELEASE, but not for 1.2.1-RC3.
      The last lines it shows are:
      em0: link state changed to UP
      Trying to mount root from nfs:
      NFS ROOT: 192.168.200.20:/var/lib/tftpboot/pfsense
      I ran Wireshark on it and it seems like it gets stuck after requesting /sbin/init via NFS. Everything up to this point works just fine.

      Apparently, this problem also occured in earlier versions (http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,8797.0.html) and, in this case, may be related to FreeBSD 7.0 (http://www.mydatabasesupport.com/forums/bsd-freebsd-misc/345864-diskless-booting-freebsd-7-0-a.html).

      Software: pfSense 1.2.2-RELEASE
      Hardware: HP Workstation xw6000 (2x Xeon 2,8 GHz, 2GB RAM, 36 GB SCSI HDD)
      NICs: LAN: bge0, WAN: xl0, OPT1(WLAN): sis0
      Packages: squid, squidGuard

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