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From: Daniel Feenberg <feenberg@nber.org>
To: Bernt Hansson <bah@bananmonarki.se>
Subject: Re: Problems with diskless/nfs
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On Sun, 20 Jan 2013, Bernt Hansson wrote:

> Hello list!
>
> I'm trying to set up a diskless workstation, but I fail.
>
> The boot process stops at "Can't find kernel" then the OK prompt appear.
>
> In the log I have this:
>
> mountd[1200]: mount request denied from 10.0.0.6 for /news/spool/ad16/x86
>
> pxeboot loads but can't find the kernel because of this.
>
> in inetd.conf I have this for tftpd
>
>
> tftp    dgram   udp     wait    root    /usr/libexec/tftpd      tftpd -l
> -s /news/spool/ad16/x86
>
> It seems like it is some problem with nfs.

kernel is loaded by tftp - so nfs isn't the problem. Find a tftp client 
and see if the kernel is available to it. I suspect the kernel isn't 
world-readable and executable. It may also be that tftpd isn't available 
beyond localhost - did you edit hosts.allow?

See http://www.nber.org/sys-admin/FreeBSD-diskless.html for our 
experiences with diskless boot.

daniel feenberg
NBER

>
> Any help is welcome.
>
> /B
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