From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Nov 4 12: 9:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (adsl-63-202-178-14.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.202.178.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1251E37B479 for ; Sat, 4 Nov 2000 12:09:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.11.1) with ESMTP id eA4KELF11838; Sat, 4 Nov 2000 12:14:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200011042014.eA4KELF11838@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: John Hay Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: dhcp boot was: Re: diskless workstation In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 04 Nov 2000 21:47:59 +0200." <200011041948.eA4Jm0R70463@zibbi.icomtek.csir.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 12:14:21 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Yes, you are right. Putting the ip number in the root-path cures the > pxeboot failure. But is still only configure the NFS ROOT according > to the kernel's output. I had a look at the pxe code in > /sys/boot/i386/libi386/pxe.c where pxeboot is built from and in > /sys/i386/i386/autoconf.c which is the kernel side and it looks like > they don't do anything about swap. There is a /* XXX set up swap? */ > placeholder though. :-) This is correct; basically I don't think the bootstrap has any business setting up swap. swapon needs to learn how to configure NFS swap (or you should use a swapfile). -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message