Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 16:14:39 -0800 (PST) From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@aciri.org> To: Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: diskless boot of a PXE-compatible machine : finally done ! Message-ID: <200102060014.f160EdM33420@iguana.aciri.org> In-Reply-To: <C12569EA.0062EABA.00@frmta003.netfr.alcatel.fr> from "Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr" at "Feb 5, 2001 7: 0:24 pm"
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in your rc.conf or rc.conf.local, you should set early_nfs_mounts="YES" so that /usr and friends are mounted before rc.diskless2 is invoked. This has worked for me at least in 3.1-something (the scripts in the CVS repository derive from the setup i have prepared on that version). not sure about the /var/db/mounttab problem because i do not see this file on my 4.x system, and strings `which mount` | grep mount does not reveal any reference to that file... maybe it is a -CURRENT thing ? cheers luigi > > Hello, > > this a simili victory report : the PC now boots via PXE (this is a Motorola > rack-mount PC, with a no-thrills BX motherboard and an fxp NIC, with a > strictly 4.2-Release installation) > > the rc.diskless2 must be wrong (I've not yet checked with -Stable), > as it tries to chmod, chgrp and find in /var > before mounting /usr (this must be a chicken-and-egg question, as a forced > /usr mount in the beginning of rc.diskless2 gives an error message about > /var/db/mounttab not being there) > > in the limited tests I have done, I have not been able to start the machine > with a strict bootp setup : the PXE ROM says there are no answers if I > force the dhcpd as a BOOTP server (I want to control the correspondance > between the MAC and IP addresses) > > the PXE boot rom is a 2.0 release, compile number 68 (is there any more > stable or better version ?) > > TfH > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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