From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 15 8:25:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.gmaare.migros.net (mail1.gmaare.migros.net [164.14.130.96]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 89EE337B42C for ; Fri, 15 Sep 2000 08:25:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 5962 invoked by uid 0); 15 Sep 2000 15:28:06 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO unixspec) (164.14.130.98) by mail1.gmaare.migros.net with SMTP; 15 Sep 2000 15:28:06 -0000 Message-ID: <002101c01f28$ea6abaf0$62820ea4@unixspec> From: "Andreas Brodmann" To: Subject: diskless booting with pxeboot and nfs root Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 17:23:35 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_001E_01C01F39.ADE755F0" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_001E_01C01F39.ADE755F0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable So far my machine boots, loads the pxeboot file from the tftp server and then goes on loading the kernel. The kernel initializations is still ok, but when coming to the place where it is supposed to mount its root filesystem it aborts with the following message: > no B_DEVMAGIC (bootdev=3D0x38a68) > > Manual root filesystem specification: ... Can anyone help me with what value the bootdev bootdev variable needs? I have passed the nfs servers ip as well as the=20 nfs root-path to the pxeboot via dhcp. Thanks for your help in advance. Andreas ------=_NextPart_000_001E_01C01F39.ADE755F0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

So far my machine boots, loads the = pxeboot file=20 from

the tftp server and then goes on = loading the=20 kernel.

The kernel initializations is still ok, = but when=20 coming

to the place where it is supposed to = mount its=20 root

filesystem it aborts with the following = message:

> no B_DEVMAGIC = (bootdev=3D0x38a68)

> Manual root filesystem=20 specification:

...

Can anyone help me with what value the=20 bootdev

bootdev variable needs?

I have passed the nfs servers ip as = well as the=20

nfs root-path to the pxeboot via = dhcp.

Thanks for your help in = advance.

Andreas

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