Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 21:20:08 +0200 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Tim Dettloff <dettloff@gmail.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Solution? Re: pxe-install on FreeBSD 5.3 Message-ID: <33725.1098386408@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 21 Oct 2004 20:53:50 %2B0200." <5b0444b504102111539dad203@mail.gmail.com>
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In message <5b0444b504102111539dad203@mail.gmail.com>, Tim Dettloff writes: then your change sounds like it makes a lot of sense. >As far as I can see it does not, but if thats is the case, it could >easily be changed :o) > >On Thu, 21 Oct 2004 19:41:02 +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp ><phk@phk.freebsd.dk> wrote: >> In message <5b0444b504102016381f8e3f96@mail.gmail.com>, Tim Dettloff writes: >> >After a lot of searching I think I have found the problem. >> > >> >Both sys/nfsclient/nfs_diskless.c (, bootp_subr.c) and sys/dev/md/md.c >> >sets rootdevnames[0] which is used by sys/kern/vfs_mount.c to select a >> >root. On 5.2.1 nfs set it first and the setting was later overwritten >> >by md. I suspect that this commit >> >http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/cvs-src/2004-March/021449.html >> >changed that order, so that nfs now overwrites the md setting. >> >I suggest that nfs is modified so it sets rootdevnames[1] instead of >> >[0]. As far as I can see [1] this is not used for anything. That way >> >md is alway tried first and then nfs. >> >> Doesn't the search terminate if [0] is NULL ? >> >> >> > >> >>Tim. >> > >> >On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 05:16:51 +0000 (UTC), Bjoern A. Zeeb >> ><bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net> wrote: >> >> On Tue, 19 Oct 2004, Tim Dettloff wrote: >> >> >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> > On 5.2.1-RELEASE i could just copy /boot from the boot-only iso to my >> >> > tftp-sever, compile pxeboot with LOADER_TFTP_SUPPORT=YES and I was >> >> > ready to pxeinstall. >> >> > >> >> > When I do the same with 5.3-RC1 the kernel wants to mount root from >> >> > NFS instead of /dev/md0. >> >> > >> >> > What is the reason for this change? >> >> >> >> I don't know but I had posted a solution earlier this year. If I >> >> rememeber correctly it had been setting >> >> set vfs.root.mountfrom="ufs:/dev/md0c" >> >> in boot/loader.rc. >> >> >> >> >> >> > In addition it would really be nice if the iso contained a >> >> > pxeboot build with LOADER_TFTP_SUPPORT=YES in addition to the >> >> > standard one. I imagine it is only a couple of lines extra in the makefile..? >> >> >> >> +1 from me ;) >> >> >> >> -- >> >> Bjoern A. Zeeb bzeeb at Zabbadoz dot NeT >> >> >> >_______________________________________________ >> >freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list >> >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current >> >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > >> >> -- >> Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 >> phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 >> FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe >> Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. >> > -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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