From owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 15 01:40:12 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B657316A4CE for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 01:40:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.freebsd.org [216.136.204.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 984EC43D1D for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 01:40:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (gnats@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j1F1eCaG036142 for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 01:40:12 GMT (envelope-from gnats@freefall.freebsd.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j1F1eCPR036141; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 01:40:12 GMT (envelope-from gnats) Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 01:40:12 GMT Message-Id: <200502150140.j1F1eCPR036141@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org From: Harry Coin Subject: Re: conf/48195: /var/db/mounttab error on diskless boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: Harry Coin List-Id: Bug reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 01:40:12 -0000 The following reply was made to PR conf/48195; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Harry Coin To: Brooks Davis Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: conf/48195: /var/db/mounttab error on diskless boot Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 19:37:26 -0600 Thanks very much for this! I'm able to PXE boot a diskless kernel, but I just keep getting 'Amnesiac' and various gripes about unable to update (big list) due to RO root FS. I will ignore it then and continue to debug my setup. I'm having problems getting the initdiskless diskless_remount to nfs mount a remote etc directory based on the ip address. No need to reply, I'll post again if I can't figure it out myself and have a specific error to report. One helpful item: Some folks were complaining about getting a 'setrootbyname failed' error on a diskless machine. I find that if I just don't mention a / directory in my diskless machine's fstab, that error doesn't appear. I wish there was some means to discern whether a bootup message is a warning and the command in a script completed to some extent with a notice of some failed secondary op (like updating /var/db/mounttab) and yet returned an exit code of 0) or whether the message is an error and didn't complete. My objective is not to have any memory disks on the diskless machines, memory is at a premium while there is plenty of remote disk space (compute bound diskless application using lotsa used computers CPU / memory only doing a parallel processing thing). I'm somewhat new to Freebsd so sorry if this seems 'newbie' ish. Thanks for all the work on Freebsd, I hope to contribute once I get a little better at all this. Harry