From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jan 16 12:13:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (mass.dis.org [216.240.45.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4563837B404 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 12:13:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f0GKRWl00629; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 12:27:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200101162027.f0GKRWl00629@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Brian Dean Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NFS_ROOT not working when using a Netapp server In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 16 Jan 2001 13:17:15 EST." <20010116131715.A33531@vger.bsdhome.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 12:27:31 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > # ls -l /dev/null > crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 0, 0x00080002 Jan 16 11:35 /dev/null > # ls -l /dev/mem > crw-r----- 1 root kmem 0, 0x00080000 Jan 15 13:28 /dev/mem > # df -k . mass:~>ls -l /dev/null crw-rw-rw- 1 root wheel 2, 2 Jan 16 12:20 /dev/null mass:~>ls -l /dev/mem crw-r----- 1 root kmem 2, 0 Nov 22 1999 /dev/mem What did you use to actually create your exported /dev on the NetApp in the first place? Encoding of device major/minor numbers is funky with NFS, and FreeBSD only does NFSv2 for the root filesystem by default (which makes matters even worse). If you didn't, try making the exported /dev with a FreeBSD client. If that still fails (wouldn't surprise me all that much), you want to be using an MFS or md-mounted /dev. The standard rc.diskless stuff works OK, but I don't like MFS all that much, so I rewrote it slightly to use md. See http://ziplok.dis.org/msmith/rc.diskless*.diff (could do with some polishing). -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message