Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:55:26 -0500 From: Jake Burkholder <jake@locore.ca> To: John Du <jjohndu@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ultrsparc-1 Still cannot mount NFS root Message-ID: <20021115155526.U85338@locore.ca> In-Reply-To: <20021115201752.18194.qmail@web14201.mail.yahoo.com>; from jjohndu@yahoo.com on Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 12:17:52PM -0800 References: <20021112170022.H85338@locore.ca> <20021115201752.18194.qmail@web14201.mail.yahoo.com>
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> Thanks Jake for the information. I built a new kernel > and tried booting an Ultra 1 again. It failed again at > the point to mount an NFS file system as root. The NFS > server is an Intel PC running FreeBSD 4.5. I know it > is not the NFS server problem because other clients > can mount the same file system and the also the new > kernel is downloaded from this NFS file system. > > Here is what I see from the serial console: > > ok boot net > Resetting ... > > Manual root filesystem specification: > <fstype>:<device> Mount <device> using filesystem > <fstype> > eg. ufs:da0a > ? List valid disk boot devices > <empty line> Abort manual input > > mountroot> > > Thanks for your help! Type 'nfs:' You can also put 'set vfs.root.mountfrom=nfs:' in /path/to/nfsroot/boot/loader.conf on the nfs server to make this happen automatically. Jake To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message
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