From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 13 20:39:15 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 863AE16A4CE; Wed, 13 Oct 2004 20:39:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp2.jazztel.es (smtp2.jazztel.es [62.14.3.162]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0243A43D41; Wed, 13 Oct 2004 20:39:14 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from josemi@freebsd.jazztel.es) Received: from antivirus by smtp2.jazztel.es with antivirus id 1CHptu-00051C-00 Wed, 13 Oct 2004 22:39:10 +0200 Received: from [212.106.238.81] (helo=rguez.homeunix.net) by smtp2.jazztel.es with esmtp id 1CHptu-00050s-00 Wed, 13 Oct 2004 22:39:10 +0200 Received: from redesjm.local (orion.redesjm.local [192.168.254.16]) by rguez.homeunix.net (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id i9DKdF18007025; Wed, 13 Oct 2004 22:39:15 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from josemi@freebsd.jazztel.es) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by redesjm.local (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id i9DKdFfZ014130; Wed, 13 Oct 2004 22:39:15 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from josemi@freebsd.jazztel.es) X-Authentication-Warning: orion.redesjm.local: freebsd set sender to josemi@freebsd.jazztel.es using -f From: Jose M Rodriguez To: net@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 22:39:14 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200410132239.14957.josemi@freebsd.jazztel.es> X-AntiVirus: checked by AntiVir Milter 1.1-beta; AVE 6.27.0.12; VDF 6.27.0.81 (host: antares.redesjm.local) X-Virus-Scanned: by antivirus cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: General diskless problems. X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 20:39:15 -0000 After seen some mail about initdiskless, I recall that have some problems with diskless/pxe last time. Maybe of general interest. - can't mount a NFS root from a tftp operate loader - can't mount a NFS root froma a BOOTP configured kernel. This seems related to a bug in the loader/kernel kenv. Loader pass a nfsiohandle via kenv without check. If the loader doesn't do any NFS operation, it's a pretty invalid all zeroes nfsiohandle that messed kernel nfsroot mount. - PXE i/o problems. intel PXE i/o is NON_BLOCKING. It is supposed blocking on all the UDP code. Also seems recall a bios I/O buffer configured as a packet buffer. Sorry. I missed to report this (think). -- josemi