From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Oct 12 10: 6:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from klima.physik.uni-mainz.de (klima.Physik.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.180.162]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8367637B407; Fri, 12 Oct 2001 10:06:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from klima.Physik.Uni-Mainz.DE (klima.Physik.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.180.162]) by klima.physik.uni-mainz.de (8.11.6/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f9CH6cm92838; Fri, 12 Oct 2001 19:06:38 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de) Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 19:06:38 +0200 (CEST) From: "Hartmann, O." To: David Malone Cc: , Subject: Re: diskless boot broken in FBSD 4.4-STABLE In-Reply-To: <20011012175923.A84940@walton.maths.tcd.ie> Message-ID: <20011012190316.F52936-100000@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 12 Oct 2001, David Malone wrote: Hello. Thanks for your response, but I got a solution worked out by myself (and it was more intuitive than elaborating things ...). /diskless_root/etc and /diskless_root/conf/default/etc/ seem to __must__ be identical, so I have to make changes in one directory and then copy each thing into the other. I did so, due to I remember myself that this caused problems in the past. It works now as expected. I was a little bit nervous and afraid because several weeks ago changes in the pxe bootloader killed the functionality of diskless booting and droped our X-client pool out of order ... Thanks alot and excuse please. :>On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 05:40:06PM +0200, Hartmann, O. wrote: :>> As an effect of the today's cvsupdate, make world and installing all :>> necessary stuff, including a mergemaster for our DHCP server, none :>> of our diskless stations is booting! :>> :>> After receiving their kernel, booting into it, the diskless station :>> fails on mounting /etc with the following error message: :>> :>> cylinder groups must have at least 2 cylinders :>> MFS mount on /etc failed: droping into /bin/sh :>> :>> It is important to get the terminals back as soon as possible ... :> :>I'd guess that this is a problem with Robert's patches to newfs :>when applied to small file systems. I'd guess you could work around :>it by editing rc.diskless and looking for the mount_mfs line and :>adding something like "-t 512" to the command line. :> :> David. :> -- MfG O. Hartmann ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de ---------------------------------------------------------------- IT-Administration des Institutes fuer Physik der Atmosphaere (IPA) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz Becherweg 21 55099 Mainz Tel: +496131/3924662 (Maschinenraum) Tel: +496131/3924144 FAX: +496131/3923532 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message