Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 15:50:13 -0700 From: "Robert Ramey" <ramey@rrsd.com> To: <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Diskless booting Message-ID: <19990621224802.575E3249FD@acme.sb.west.net>
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Has anyone had success booting a totally diskless kernel. That is a kernel with NFS mounted as root. I built a kernel with the appropriate options - no file systems except NFS, NFS_ROOT, NO_SWAP, etc. build and configure seem to work find. The kernel boot seems to run to completion; trace messages indicated that pagedaemon (pid = 2) and syncer(pid=3 have been started. The sysem panics if I remove init from the /sbin directory in the NFS server directory. So it seems that the it is getting invoked. But a printf at the beginning doesn't appear on the console. DDB can be invoked and seems to work - it uses the console. I don't really know enough about the kernel to use it though. On a totally diskless system such as this - who/what created the vnodes in the /dev directory? could this be a problem. Anyone who want to comment on this is welcome because I'm stuck. Robert Ramey To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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