From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 14 6: 1:39 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 0871D37B401 for ; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 06:01:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from haha.debank.tv (c92069.upc-c.chello.nl [212.187.92.69]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FD6943E8A for ; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 06:01:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rob@debank.tv) Received: from debank.tv (X-server.debank.tv [192.168.1.69]) by haha.debank.tv (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gAEE1T18019349; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 15:01:29 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from rob@debank.tv) Message-ID: <3DD3ACB9.2070609@debank.tv> Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 15:01:29 +0100 From: User Rob User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20021113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Joao Pedras Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: advice on fine tuning diskless boot References: <1037146648.3dd19a183ee31@mail.webvolution.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Looks to me your rc.diskless script is usig the fstab you created in making the root file system look in man diskless for /conf/default/etc/fstab I think you'll find what you need there. Rob Joao Pedras wrote: >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 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message