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Date:      Wed, 13 Nov 2002 00:17:28 +0000 (WET)
From:      Joao Pedras <jpedras@webvolution.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   advice on fine tuning diskless boot
Message-ID:  <1037146648.3dd19a183ee31@mail.webvolution.net>

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Hello all!

Two small issues...

1) After sucessfully configuring a set of systems which come up diskless (thank
you for the fine documentation), these still try to mount root from /dev/ad0s1a:

.
.
Adjusted interface xl0
Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a
no such device 'ad'
setrootbyname failed
ffs_mountroot: can't find rootvp
Root mount failed: 6
Mounting root from nfs:
NFS ROOT: 192.168.200.3:/diskless_root
NFS SWAP: 192.168.200.3:/diskless_swap
.
.

After this the system comes up fine.

The kernel is compiled without ata and friends. Should a kernel option like
ROOTDEVNAME be used ?

I checked the 'loader' and 'pxeboot' documentation, the mailing lists and it is
not obvious how to "fix" this.

2. do you see any inconvenient in totally removing all UFS options from the
kernel ? These systems have no hard drives...

That's all for now. Thank you for time.

Joao

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