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From: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@aciri.org>
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Subject: Re: diskless boot ...
In-Reply-To: ll double entries in /var/db/mounttab when "rpc.umntall" is invoked
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> Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> > 
> > in your rc.conf or rc.conf.local, you should set
> > 
> >         early_nfs_mounts="YES"
> 
> Well : (I don't find this knob in a recent -Stable machine - it is
> indeed in the examples)
> multi# cd /etc
> multi# grep early rc*
> rc:# BOOTP diskless boot.  We have to run the rc file early in order to
> rc:# Set sysctl variables as early as we can
> rc.network:     # Establish ipfilter ruleset as early as possible (best
> in
> rc.network6:    # Choose IPv6 default interface if it is not clearly
> specified.
> multi# uname -a
> FreeBSD multi.XXX.YYY 4.2-STABLE FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE #0: Mon Jan  1
> 14:05:12 CET 2001    
> root@multi.XXX.YYY:/files3/recup4/obj/files3/recup4/src/sys/multi  i386
> multi#
> 
> this exists on a 3.5-Stable machine : (in /etc/rc)
> if [ "X$early_nfs_mounts" != "XYES" ]; then
>         mount -a -t nonfs 
> else
>         mount -a
> fi
> 
> early_nfs_mounts was removed with revision 1.209 of rc
> (<http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/etc/rc?rev=1.209&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup>)
> 
> 	TfH
> 
> > 
> > so that /usr and friends are mounted before rc.diskless2
> > is invoked. This has worked for me at least in 3.1-something
> > (the scripts in the CVS repository derive from the setup
> > i have prepared on that version).
> > 
> > not sure about the /var/db/mounttab problem because i do not
> > see this file on my 4.x system, and
> > 
> >         strings `which mount` | grep mount
> > 
> > does not reveal any reference to that file... maybe it
> > is a -CURRENT thing ?
> > 
> >         cheers
> >         luigi
> >
> 



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