From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jun 26 17:27: 8 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 5AF9F14DE9 for ; Sat, 26 Jun 1999 17:27:02 -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 JAA10970; Sun, 27 Jun 1999 09:56:58 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id JAA81898; Sun, 27 Jun 1999 09:56:57 +0930 (CST) Date: Sun, 27 Jun 1999 09:56:57 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Michael.Still@ipaustralia.gov.au Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Kernel panic mounting / over NFS, fxp not probed for Message-ID: <19990627095657.Q427@freebie.lemis.com> References: <4A25679C.002814AD.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: <4A25679C.002814AD.00@noteshub01.aipo.gov.au>; from Michael.Still@ipaustralia.gov.au on Sat, Jun 26, 1999 at 05:10:34PM +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 17:10:34 +1000, Michael.Still@ipaustralia.gov.au wrote: > Greg Lehey on 26/06/99 11:15:17 am >> 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? > > It says SIOCAIFADDR: 6... Device not configured. But this isn't the panic message. I suppose the panic message is "can't mount root". > 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. That sounds reasonable. > My question now is: does anyone have any idea why it is not probing > for fxp0??? Is it disabled? > 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... Strange. Is this really exactly the same kernel? Greg -- 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