From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 21 15:48: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from acme.sb.west.net (acme.sb.west.net [205.254.224.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E62B014CA1 for ; Mon, 21 Jun 1999 15:48:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ramey@rrsd.com) Received: from RRSD01 (226-146.adsl2.avtel.net [207.71.226.146]) by acme.sb.west.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 575E3249FD for ; Mon, 21 Jun 1999 15:48:02 -0700 (PDT) From: "Robert Ramey" To: Subject: Diskless booting Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 15:50:13 -0700 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.70.1162 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <19990621224802.575E3249FD@acme.sb.west.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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