From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 1 7:31:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from patrick.whetstonelogic.com (patrick.whetstonelogic.com [205.252.46.171]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E3873DB9 for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2000 07:31:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from whetstonelogic.com (localhost.whetstonelogic.com [127.0.0.1]) by patrick.whetstonelogic.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA39316 for ; Tue, 1 Feb 2000 10:33:12 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from patrick@whetstonelogic.com) From: patrick@whetstonelogic.com Message-Id: <200002011533.KAA39316@patrick.whetstonelogic.com> Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2000 10:33:11 -0500 (EST) Subject: Fwd: Re: Diskless Booting a Sun4C To: questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am in the process of creating a diskless boot How-To for FreeBSD to show how to boot other *BSD OS's from FreeBSD. I am trying to diskless boot a Sun4C with OpenBSD from my FreeBSD box. However, when it goes to nfs mount the file system, it repeatedly gives me errors: RPC timeout from server 0xd298823c1 (not real number) I contacted the OpenBSD people and they responded with the message below. Yet, I am able to boot NetBSD, and a X.kernel from this same setup. And it is the /root directory that is having trouble, not the swap file. I've also started 'mountd -r' to attempt what Theo suggested. Any ideas on how to get this working? Patrick ------ Forwarded message ------ From: Theo de Raadt Subject: Re: Diskless Booting a Sun4C Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2000 19:10:38 -0700 To: patrick@whetstonelogic.com The FreeBSD mount daemon is broken. It requires a special option to serve files as well as directories. Read up on theirs for this special option, and while you're at it, send them some mail saying that they should fix that, since it's stupid, and just causes people like you extra hastle. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message