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Date:      Thu, 14 Nov 2002 15:51:17 +0000 (WET)
From:      Joao Pedras <jpedras@webvolution.net>
To:        User Rob <rob@debank.tv>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: advice on fine tuning diskless boot
Message-ID:  <1037289077.3dd3c675e6a72@mail.webvolution.net>
In-Reply-To: <3DD3AC53.10805@debank.tv>
References:  <1037146648.3dd19a183ee31@mail.webvolution.net> <3DD3AC53.10805@debank.tv>

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Greetings Rob,

here's my /etc/fstab. This initially resides in /conf before clone_root copies
it to /diskless_root/conf.

192.168.200.3:/usr      /usr            nfs     ro              0       0
proc                    /proc           procfs  rw              0       0

I grep'ed all the files and checked the cpio's that clonet_root creates and
there is no reference of /dev/ad0s1a. I am assuming that it is the kernel that
tries to mount this by default.

In fact this message is spit out by the kernel.

Please cc: future replies to me as I am not subscribed to this list.

Thanks for you help.

Joao

Quoting User Rob <rob@debank.tv>:

> 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
> >
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> >
> >  
> >
> 
> 
> 
> 

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