From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Sep 29 23:54: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 45AEE37B401 for ; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 23:54:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net (sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net [63.105.21.156]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A44AD43E65 for ; Sun, 29 Sep 2002 23:54:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nkinkade@dsl-only.net) Received: from sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net (freebsd.localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by sub21-156.member.dsl-only.net (8.12.5/8.12.4) with SMTP id g8U71bar052595 for ; Mon, 30 Sep 2002 00:01:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nkinkade@dsl-only.net) Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 00:01:32 -0700 From: Nathan Kinkade To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: diskless - anybody got one working? Message-Id: <20020930000132.7d48d933.nkinkade@dsl-only.net> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.8claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd4.6) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've been attempting to get a diskless FreeBSD machine running which boots across the network using etherboot. So far, I can get the machine to boot off the etherboot created floppy and it loads the kernel across the network. However, after the kernel loads, instead of mounting the remote root filesystem it just prompts me to enter the location of the root filesystem. If I try to enter something like nfs:x.x.x.x:/usr/home/diskless the kernel panics and reboots the machine. I can see that the ISC-DHCPD is sending the paramaters for the "Root Filesystem" using ethereal. I have also configured and compiled a kernel with the necessary BOOTP options. I don't think it's an NFS problem at this point, as after it boots the kernel the diskless machine never attempts to do anything with NFS, or at least not so far as ethereal can see. It seems to be either a problem with etherboot or with the kernel paying no attention to the "Root Filesystem" configuration sent by the DHCPD. The other strange thing is that if I build the diskless kernel on my 4.6-STABLE box the diskless machine won't attempt to boot the loaded kernel, but rather just reboots the machine as soon as it's done loading the kernel across the network. However, if I build the diskless kernel on a 4.6.2-RELEASE (the same box that I'm trying to get to boot diskless) the kernel loads and boots, but stops to ask me where the root filesystem is located. Has anybody got a diskless setup working with 4.6, DHCP, and etherboot? Thanks, Nathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message