From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jun 2 01:10:08 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A83E16B9F5 for ; Fri, 2 Jun 2006 01:10:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lukem@cse.unsw.edu.au) Received: from tone.orchestra.cse.unsw.EDU.AU (tone.orchestra.cse.unsw.EDU.AU [129.94.242.59]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FB7B43D78 for ; Fri, 2 Jun 2006 01:10:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lukem@cse.unsw.edu.au) Received: From wagner.orchestra.cse.unsw.EDU.AU ([129.94.242.19]) (ident-user root) By tone With Smtp ; Fri, 2 Jun 2006 11:10:01 +1000 Received: From wagner With LocalMail ; Fri, 2 Jun 2006 11:10:01 +1000 From: lukem.freebsd@cse.unsw.edu.au Sender: lukem@cse.unsw.edu.au To: Nash Nipples Date: Fri, 2 Jun 2006 11:10:01 +1000 (EST) In-Reply-To: <20060601083159.59010.qmail@web36305.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Message-ID: References: <20060601083159.59010.qmail@web36305.mail.mud.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Trouble booting NFS root X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 02 Jun 2006 01:10:10 -0000 > make sure you have this: -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel diskless_root/etc/rc > diskless_root/etc/rc: > /bin/sh #which points your rc file to shell so that you are your own rc! While that is a useful tip, the NFS trace shows that the kernel doesn't even try to read any files. The last thing that gets read by anything is /etc/fstab, however it seems most likely that fstab was read by the bootloader rather than the kernel proper. -- Luke