From owner-freebsd-current Sun Aug 13 21: 7:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from hse-toronto-ppp119263.sympatico.ca (Toronto-ppp80875.sympatico.ca [216.209.16.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 264D737B901 for ; Sun, 13 Aug 2000 21:07:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rbt@zort.on.ca) Received: (qmail 12515 invoked by uid 0); 14 Aug 2000 04:08:50 -0000 Received: from peon185.zort.on.ca (HELO zort.on.ca) (10.0.0.185) by toronto-ppp80875.sympatico.ca with SMTP; 14 Aug 2000 04:08:50 -0000 Message-ID: <3997716B.2E3B43E9@zort.on.ca> Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 00:11:23 -0400 From: Rod Taylor X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sean O'Connell , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with stable (believed to be in -current as well) References: <39976BFC.4C2539B1@zort.on.ca> <20000813235147.C41638@stat.Duke.EDU> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sean O'Connell wrote: > > Rod Taylor stated: > : Wesley Morgan wrote: > : > > : > On Sun, 13 Aug 2000, Rod Taylor wrote: > : > > : > > My server functions properly (harddrives inside). My diskless machines > : > > (mounting same filesystems via NFS) are having problems. Thanks in > : > > advance. > : > > > : > > bash-2.03$ top > : > > top: nlist failed > : > > > : > > : > If you installed a new kernel and have the original (or close to > : > it) world, make world now. > : > : It's a perfectly matched kernel and world. This is what I attempted to > : show by stating that the diskless box and server run on the same > : filesystem. One mounted from the other. Server works, diskless boxes > : don't. (Yes, they've all been rebooted since then). > > Is the kernel beining netbooted identical to the one in the exported > diskless partition? I would make sure that the kernel image in hte > root of the exported filesystem is the same. I can netboot for inst- > allation purposes from a floppy. I just have to be careful to keep > the same kernel and etc files in sync (I install into a /netboot > directory using: setenv DESTDIR /netboot; make installworld ... ). No, they're not identical. However I created it, and moved it to it's proper place. Being as make installkernel KERNEL=FEH seems to ignore the whole: makeoptions KERNEL=kernel.diskless seems to be completely ignored. > The other way this problem can occur is if you load your kernel from > the boot blocks (??) rather than from /boot/loader. I'm unsure as to how a network boot even considers bootblocks or loaders. It's coming from across the network via etherboot. Although the etherboot client is currently on a floppy on most boxes (Bad EProm burner). -- Rod Taylor "People get annoyed when you try to debug them." -- Larry Wall, 2nd State of the Onion. "A + B + C = Success if, A = Hard Work, B = Hard Play, C = Keeping your mouth shut." -- Albert Einstein -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message