From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 12 16:17:29 2002 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 C52EE37B401 for ; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 16:17:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns.webvolution.net (ns.webvolution.net [64.173.23.219]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E9B843E4A for ; Tue, 12 Nov 2002 16:17:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jpedras@webvolution.net) Received: from ns.webvolution.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ns.webvolution.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gAD0HS5J066622 for ; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 00:17:28 GMT (envelope-from jpedras@webvolution.net) Received: (from nobody@localhost) by ns.webvolution.net (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id gAD0HSKM066621 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 00:17:28 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: ns.webvolution.net: nobody set sender to jpedras@webvolution.net using -f To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: advice on fine tuning diskless boot Message-ID: <1037146648.3dd19a183ee31@mail.webvolution.net> Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 00:17:28 +0000 (WET) From: Joao Pedras MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Webvolution Networks webmail Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message