From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Feb 1 13:06:04 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 79D8516A4CE for ; Sun, 1 Feb 2004 13:06:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from goblin.sonhosting.net (MKCVIII.dsl.saunalahti.fi [62.142.33.208]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1B6E43D1D for ; Sun, 1 Feb 2004 13:06:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@sonhosting.net) Received: from sonhosting.net (localhost.sonhosting.net [127.0.0.1]) i11L63ba070625 for ; Sun, 1 Feb 2004 23:06:03 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from mike@sonhosting.net) From: User Mike Received: from 10.0.0.80 (SquirrelMail authenticated user mike) by 10.0.0.10 with HTTP; Sun, 1 Feb 2004 23:06:03 +0200 (EET) Message-ID: <3114.10.0.0.80.1075669563.squirrel@10.0.0.10> Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 23:06:03 +0200 (EET) To: In-Reply-To: <20040126165719.GC3937@npkfbsd> References: <3979.10.0.0.80.1075055258.squirrel@10.0.10.1> <20040126165719.GC3937@npkfbsd> X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.11) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-19.3 required=5.0 tests=IN_REP_TO,MSG_ID_ADDED_BY_MTA_3,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT, REFERENCES,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES version=2.50 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) Subject: Re: Network booting with PXE X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2004 21:06:04 -0000 > Did you recompile your kernel with options: > > options BOOTP # Use BOOTP to obtain IP address/hostname > options BOOTP_NFSROOT # NFS mount root filesystem using BOOTP info > options BOOTP_COMPAT # Workaround for broken bootp daemons. > Yes, I did. How else would the other machines work fine. > By the way, how much RAM do you have in those machines? I have found > that I get by fine with no swap at all using as little as 32MB - though > I am using Linux diskless terminals, but this shouldn't matter. > At least 64 MB, but up to 256 MB depending on usage/purpose of machine. The main reason I wanted to add swap was because when the machines aren't in heavy use they run MPI programs. As most people know at heavy usage they almost always need swap! Don't focus on the swap as it isn't the issue. My problem is that FBSD won't mount root over NFS if a local hard drive is present. All I want to know is how to bypass the check!