Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:15:40 -0400 From: Jeff Wheelhouse <freebsd-questions@wheelhouse.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Bizarre Diskless Boot Behavior Message-ID: <6C89B0E1-5309-4C27-B0E1-65A7A9FEF9E7@wheelhouse.org>
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I have a number of diskless FreeBSD servers. Usually, they work fine. But sometimes when I reboot one, I get weird messages on the console like this: FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1 (root@e2, Sat Jan 19 16:41:40 MST 2008) pxe_open: server addr: 1.2.3.4 pxe_open: server path: /path/to/NFS/Root pxe_open: gateway ip: 1.2.3.1 \ Insert disk labelled Loader.rc and press any key... It isn't always "Loader.rc" though, it seems quasi-random. I've also seen: Insert disk labelled ELF and press any key... Insert disk labelled boot.nfsroot.options="nfsv3,soft,intr,tcp" and press any key... (The latter being the first line of loader.conf.) I think these incidents correspond to the following strange xferlog entries from tftpd on the boot server: Jul 30 20:15:03 xx tftpd[86096]: 1.2.3.11: read request for \.split: File not found Jul 30 20:15:03 xx tftpd[86098]: 1.2.3.11: read request for \.split: File not found Jul 30 20:15:03 xx tftpd[86100]: 1.2.3.11: read request for \.gz.split: File not found Jul 30 20:15:03 xx tftpd[86102]: 1.2.3.11: read request for \.gz: File not found Jul 30 20:15:03 xx tftpd[86104]: 1.2.3.11: read request for \: File not found Rebooting generally makes it go away, so it's not a *big* deal, but I wouldn't want this to happen in the event of an unattended panic/ reboot or something. Does anyone have any ideas what might cause this? Thanks! Jeff
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