Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 10:49:53 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Brian Dean <bsd@bsdhome.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NFS_ROOT not working when using a Netapp server Message-ID: <20010116104953.T7240@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <20010116131715.A33531@vger.bsdhome.com>; from bsd@bsdhome.com on Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 01:17:15PM -0500 References: <20010116131715.A33531@vger.bsdhome.com>
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* Brian Dean <bsd@bsdhome.com> [010116 10:17] wrote: > Hi, > > Has anyone here sucessfully used a Netapp fileserver as the NFS root > filesystem for FreeBSD clients? > > My FreeBSD client basically mounts the Netapp, boots the kernel, but > fails early in /etc/rc because /dev/mem, /dev/kmem, /dev/null (and > friends) are unavailable. This is expected, NFS doesn't provide a name->major/minor mapping system and as such each OS must provide its own devices heirarchy for it to work. Some suggestions are using an mfs /dev and creating the device nodes in there, or making a filesystem via the "vn" device and mounting a vn device over NFS. Honestly I haven't really done anything with NFSroot, but these options would probably work, you might also have luck looking in the mailing list archives and reading the DISKLESS(8) manpage. best of luck, -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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