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From: Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
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Subject: Re: Diskless booting ... almost.
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Jacques Hugo wrote in list.freebsd-questions:
 > However, and this is the fun part, if I change my swap
 > setting in the tftpboot directory from 
 > 
 > swapfs 155.238.17.1:/usr/swapfs/swap.155.238.17.2
 > 	
 > to
 > 
 > swapfs 155.238.17.1:/usr/swapfs

This is correct.  You have to specify the directory only, not
the filename.
 > 
 > it finds the kernel and boots, but then reboots
 > itself.

So there must be a different problem after that.  Are there any
warnings or error messages before it reboots?  Did you try to
do a tcpdump on the network to find out what happens?
Exactly when does it reboot -- right after mounting the swap?

Are you sure that the swap size is specified correctly?  Note
that it must be specified in Kbytes (not 512 byte blocks).
Also make sure that the files have been created with sufficient
size:  dd if=/dev/zero of=swap.x.x.x.x bs=1k count=whatever

Regards
   Oliver

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