Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:55:14 -0600 From: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> To: "Michael W. Lucas" <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: diskless problem: Lookup of /dev for devfs, error: 13 Message-ID: <6201873e0911191355l6c872cfat235e16b4184b02fd@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20091119211829.GA86841@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org> References: <20091119211829.GA86841@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org>
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On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Michael W. Lucas < mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm attempting to run a diskless 8.0 i386 workstation on VMWare, using > an OpenSolaris box as a file store. I get PXE, the kernel loads, but > when we try to remount the filesystem I get: > > ... > NFS ROOT: XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:/storage1/vm/netflow > Lookup of /dev for devfs, error 13 > exec /sbin/init: error 13 > exec /sbin/oinit: error 13 > exec /sbin/init.bak: error 13 > exec /rescue/inet: error 13 > exec /stand/sysinstall: error 13 > init: not found in path > ... > > At first glance, it would appear that /dev is missing. I've never > seen this happen before diskless systems, though, and I can't find any > other references to this. I know that other people have PXE-booted > FreeBSD on VMWare, however. > > Anyone have any suggestions on what to check? > > Thanks, > > I think you were following the same aged howto I was. Whatever config file /stand/sysinstall and friends is located in needs to be edited and have those references removed. That's about as far as I got when playing around a few ago. -- Adam Vande More
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