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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
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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

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