From owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Apr 25 15:15:59 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BCF7106564A for ; Sun, 25 Apr 2010 15:15:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lstewart@freebsd.org) Received: from lauren.room52.net (lauren.room52.net [210.50.193.198]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D9AB8FC13 for ; Sun, 25 Apr 2010 15:15:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lawrence1.loshell.room52.net (unknown [59.167.184.191]) by lauren.room52.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9E9F17E84A; Mon, 26 Apr 2010 01:15:57 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <4BD45CAD.1050102@freebsd.org> Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 01:15:57 +1000 From: Lawrence Stewart User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-AU; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100405 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Braniss References: <4BD3EBE1.8030701@freebsd.org> <4BD437AB.8060103@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NFS mount RPC error when loading kernel after PXE boot(was "Re: Vbox/PXE booting works (fwd)") X-BeenThere: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Development of Emulators of other operating systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 Apr 2010 15:15:59 -0000 On 04/25/10 23:28, Daniel Braniss wrote: >> Hi Danny, >> >> On 04/25/10 21:39, Daniel Braniss wrote: >>>> Hi Danny and all, >> >> [snip] >> >>>> mount the NFS share to pull the kernel from. I've verified that the NFS >>>> configuration works, both using a separate physical machine and by >>>> firing up the VM I'm trying to PXE boot with the fixit CD and mounting >>>> the share from the fixit shell i.e. the problem seems to be localised to >>>> the boot loader. >> >> [snip] >> >>> have you tried your pxe/diskless outside vmware? >> >> Yes, see above. The NFS configuration works perfectly when used inside a >> vm running FreeBSD or from a physical machine. It only fails when I try >> to PXE boot the vm. > > i'll refrase question: > can you pxe boot a diskless client via nfs? > > the 'above' just says that you can nfs access, which was not my question. Sorry, I didn't explain myself very well. By "using a separate physical machine", I meant that I can successfully PXE boot the machine on my LAN which pulls the kernel over NFS and happily mounts root over NFS i.e. answer to your question is yes. The second part of my testing was using the mount_nfs command manually on the command line of a vbox vm which was booted into the fixit cd's fixit shell. Everything points to my config being good and a weird loader related issue. Assuming you are able to successfully pxe boot FreeBSD could I ask you to please: - Tell me which version of FreeBSD your pxeboot sources are built from - Make your FreeBSD pxeboot binary available for me to download from somewhere so I can try it in case it makes any difference Thanks for your continued input, I'm really at a loss. Cheers, Lawrence