From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jul 6 8:42:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.dcnv.com (mail.dcnv.com [216.33.117.136]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 105C337C3D0; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 08:42:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from aedmonds@digitalconvergence.com) Received: from digitalconvergence.com (dallas [207.158.100.67]) by mail.dcnv.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA73627; Thu, 6 Jul 2000 10:41:35 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from aedmonds@digitalconvergence.com) Message-ID: <3964A8E5.D7F4B8E4@digitalconvergence.com> Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2000 10:42:29 -0500 From: Alan Edmonds X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Paul Saab Cc: Bill Fumerola , John Baldwin , ps@freebsd.org, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pxeboot problems with 4.0-stable (continued) References: <20000705170516.L4034@jade.chc-chimes.com> <3963A776.8AB99AC7@digitalconvergence.com> <3963B7D7.1DC5F5C5@FreeBSD.org> <3963D07D.4D13B9B9@digitalconvergence.com> <20000705172602.A26402@elvis.mu.org> <3963D601.46A51C0A@digitalconvergence.com> <20000705204441.T4034@jade.chc-chimes.com> <20000705180621.B26935@elvis.mu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I did find one other problem in the pxe stuff. I'm using ISC's dhcpd to manage the network. The pxe client is having trouble with the option root-path "/client/root" statement. DHCPD sends it to the pxe client fine (tcpdump), but pxeboot prints root path * (actually a diamond - control D char) On the nfs server, I see a failed attempt to mount "/*" (where * is a diamond - control D). So, there appears to be some kind of problem passing parameters between the various boot stages. If you don't specify a root-path in the dhcpd.conf, everything's fine. It's not a show stopper, but it should be investigated/fixed. What can I do to help find the problem? Thanks, -- Alan Edmonds Director of International Technology DigitalConvergence.:Com aedmonds@digitalconvergence.com Phone: +1-214-292-6040 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message