From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 1 10:36:15 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CE60106564A for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2012 10:36:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kpielorz_lst@tdx.co.uk) Received: from mail.tdx.com (mail.tdx.com [62.13.128.18]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C78558FC08 for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2012 10:36:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from OctaHexa64-MkII (HPQuadro64.dmpriest.net.uk [62.13.130.30]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.tdx.com (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id q21AOSrK032834 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-DSS-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2012 10:24:28 GMT Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2012 10:24:30 +0000 From: Karl Pielorz To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <0D52CADE287778C263E7EF6A@OctaHexa64-MkII> X-Mailer: Mulberry/4.0.8 (Win32) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Subject: FreeBSD 9-R pxeboot fails with 'Mounting root filesystem rw failed'... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2012 10:36:15 -0000 Hi, I've got a 9.0-R amd64 system I'm trying to netboot / pxeboot from the network, to install other machines (and do fixups etc.) I set this up as we setup previous versions here - but setting up a tftp server, and nfs server - and 'dumping' the contents of the install CD to a directory on the dhcp server, which is exported via nfs (it's exported as read/write). The system kind of boots, but falls over with: " Interface em0 IP-Address 192.168.0.47 Broadcast 192.168.0.255 Entropy harvesting: interrupts ethernet point_to_pick kickstart. Starting file system checks: mount_nfs: no : nfs-name Mounting root filesystem rw failed, startup aborted ERROR: ABORTING BOOT (sending SIGTERM to parent)! Mar 1 118:10 init: /bin/sh on /etc/rc terminated abnormally, going to single user mode Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh: " It looks like it's failing to 'remount' / promote the root file system as read/write (It's definitely exported as read/write - I've tested it by mounting it on another machine). If you start a shell at this point and run mount, you get: " 192.168.0.37:/usr2/netboot/os/9.0-amd64 on / (nfs, read-only) devfs on /dev (devfs, local, multilabel) " Is there something I have to set (e.g. in '/etc/rc.conf') in order to fix this? Previous systems setup this way would always boot through to the sysinstall menu. Thanks, -Karl