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Date:      Fri, 15 May 1998 16:26:38 -0600 (MDT)
From:      "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@narnia.plutotech.com>
To:        Werner Griessl <werner@btp1da.phy.uni-bayreuth.de>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: broken remote boot
Message-ID:  <199805152226.QAA24093@narnia.plutotech.com>
In-Reply-To: <199805151243.OAA16044@btp1da.phy.uni-bayreuth.de>

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In article <199805151243.OAA16044@btp1da.phy.uni-bayreuth.de> you wrote:
> I have a problem with diskless remote boot.
> I verified, that the changes preventing remote boot
> comes between May 6 and May 7 into the stable sources.
> With a client kernel from May 6 remote boot is ok,
> with a kernel from May 7 the boot fails with:
> 
>  "panic: cannot mount root"
> 
> The kernel loads vio bootp, checks the devices up to
> "npx0: INT 16 interface", then comes the panic.
> normally followes the lines:
> NFS SWAP: ...
> NFS ROOT: ...
> 
> Here are all files which change between May 6 and 7 :

It was probably the changes I made to autoconf.c, but as
I don't perform any diskless booting it will be difficult
for me to determine what exactly is causing the problem.
Can you instrument i386/i386/autoconf.c and determin why
it fails to consider an NFS root?

> Werner

--
Justin

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