Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 13:49:33 +0100 From: Volker Paepcke <pae@iis.fhg.de> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.ORG Subject: diskless client panics: root dev has no bdevsw Message-ID: <199611251249.NAA04906@ep151.iis>
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Hi!
Over a year ago I tried a diskless setup under FreeBSD-Current.
Due to much trouble with swapping over nfs I gave up soon. Now I've some
messages on the lists concerning these problems and how to solve them.
But now I have a complete different problem: mounting the root partition.
I only get the message "panic: root dev has no bdevsw" after the
probe messages from the hardware.
The handbook contains no information about setting up the kernel config
for the client. I remember a DISKLESS option, but this seems not to exist
anymore.
Here are some more informations about my configuration:
I'm running FreeBSD-Current (last update was Oct 31.).
server name: ep151.iis
client name: ep107.iis
The client (ep107) has a 3C509 Ethernet-Card (port 0x300, int 10)
so I'm using the nb3c509.com under DOS for booting.
Kernel configuration (allmost GENERIC with a few hardware settings):
config kernel root on wd0
/etc/bootptab:
ep107.iis:\
:ht=ether:\
:ha=00a0240e216d:\
:sm=255.0.0.0:\
:hn:\
:ds=153.96.172.2:\
:ip=77.2.16.107:\
:gw=77.5.7.1:\
:vm=rfc1048:
/etc/exports:
/export/us1 -alldirs -maproot=0:0 ep107
/etc/fstab (on the client):
ep151:/export/us1/clients/ep107/rootfs / nfs rw 0 0
ep151:/export/us1/clients/ep107/swapfs none nfs sw 0 0
proc /proc procfs rw 0 0
Any ideas? or could someone please post me his working config-files?
Thanks in advance,
Volker --- pae@iis.fhg.de (scratchy@vulcan.franken.de at home)
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