From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 26 0:12:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au (pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au [202.14.186.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B3AD714F70 for ; Sat, 26 Jun 1999 00:12:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Michael.Still@ipaustralia.gov.au) Received: (from smap@localhost) by pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) id RAA07182; Sat, 26 Jun 1999 17:12:41 +1000 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au: smap set sender to using -f Received: from noteshub01.aipo.gov.au(10.0.100.21) by pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au via smap (V2.0) id xma007172; Sat, 26 Jun 99 17:12:21 +1000 Received: by noteshub01.aipo.gov.au(Lotus SMTP MTA v4.6.3 (778.2 1-4-1999)) id 4A25679C.0028166D ; Sat, 26 Jun 1999 17:17:51 +1000 X-Lotus-FromDomain: IP_AUSTRALIA From: Michael.Still@ipaustralia.gov.au To: Greg Lehey Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: <4A25679C.002814AD.00@noteshub01.aipo.gov.au> Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 17:10:34 +1000 Subject: Re: Kernel panic mounting / over NFS, fxp not probed for Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG To: Greg Lehey cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Greg, It says SIOCAIFADDR: 6... I have investigated further and the kernel is not probing for the fxp network card... Therefore, when it attempts to mount / via NFS, it failed to find an interface to configure and panics. My question now is: does anyone have any idea why it is not probing for fxp0??? The kenrel config file says "device fxp0", and the kernel does a probe when it is booting from the hard disk, but as soon as I try to boot the same kernel over the network it fails to... Any ideas? Thanks, Michael Greg Lehey on 26/06/99 11:15:17 am To: Michael Still cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel panic mounting / over NFS, where is / specified 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message