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Date:      Thu, 20 Apr 1995 12:32:27 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
To:        chain@mpd.tandem.com (Chain Lee)
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org, chain%muzak.mpd.tandem.com@mpd.tandem.com
Subject:   Re: 950412-SNAP
Message-ID:  <199504201932.MAA06554@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
In-Reply-To: <9504201906.AA08080@muzak> from "Chain Lee" at Apr 20, 95 02:06:34 pm

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> 
> Hello,
> 
> First let me thank you (in case I forget :-) for the great work
> you've accomplished!
> 
> I have a few comments/questions regarding diskless and kernel debug
> support in this snapshot.
> 
> When running a diskless station using nfs shared /usr, /usr needs
> to be mounted very earlier on in /etc/rc and /etc/netstart. In the
> current scripts, "mount -a -t nfs" is started after system daemons
> which require /usr to be mounted, and therefore the system fails
> to start. The mount command may need to be moved into middle of
> /etc/netstart where network has been set up but before starting
> any network daemons.

Could you please pick up /usr/src/etc/{rc, netstart, sysconfig} and
/usr/src/etc/etc.i386/rc.i386 from -current and try them out.  I need
some more feedback on these versions.  I believe your above problems
have been addressed in them.



-- 
Rod Grimes                                      rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
Accurate Automation Company                   Custom computers for FreeBSD



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