From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jun 25 18:15:34 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 96DDA14DF5 for ; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 18:15:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA07084; Sat, 26 Jun 1999 10:45:19 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id KAA14589; Sat, 26 Jun 1999 10:45:17 +0930 (CST) Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 10:45:17 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Michael.Still@ipaustralia.gov.au Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel panic mounting / over NFS, where is / specified Message-ID: <19990626104517.W427@freebie.lemis.com> References: <4A25679B.005643A6.00@noteshub01.aipo.gov.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4i In-Reply-To: <4A25679B.005643A6.00@noteshub01.aipo.gov.au>; from Michael.Still@ipaustralia.gov.au on Sat, Jun 26, 1999 at 01:35:23AM +1000 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Saturday, 26 June 1999 at 1:35:23 +1000, Michael.Still@ipaustralia.gov.au wrote: > > I am attempting to net boot a FreeBSD boxen (2.2.8 at this stage). I am > wondering how the kernel knows where / is to mount it. As far as I can tell, it > does not use /etc/fstab at this stage... > > I am asking because I keep having a kernel panic at the stage where the kernel > attempts to mount / for the first time and I am not sure why. It tells you. What did it say? -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message