From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Nov 21 23:21:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sublime.efs.org (gatekeeper.efs.org [216.55.163.203]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A83A737B4CF for ; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 23:21:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from eclipse (eclipse.efs.org [209.75.71.35]) by sublime.efs.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) with SMTP id eAM7OPt14816 for ; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 23:24:26 -0800 (PST) From: "Matt Wilbur" To: Subject: problems with diskless operation, 4.1.1R Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 23:21:11 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I've been working on a diskless config (4.1.1R server and clients) for a lab, and I've come a long way, but I've got one problem I can't seem to get around. I'm able to boot the client using an etherboot floppy, load the kernel, mount the rootfs (passed to the kernel via bootp), and have a working /etc, /dev (vtys are happy, etc) and /var (mostly thanks to rc.diskless*).. I'm kludging to get swap working over nfs using vn for now (long story, but our processing requires a LOT more memory than these systems have..) I can log in, and most everything works, EXCEPT for things like top (nlist error), pstat (missing symbol having to do with vn), vmstat (missing other symbols..) ps works ok. /dev/[mem,kmem] are working OK. libkvm is ok, i've rebuilt/reinstalled it just in case. I've rebuilt the kernel from within the diskless system, same problem. I've unpacked fresh 4.1.1R libraries and reinstalled them, and ldconfig'd just in case. To get the exact error messages I need to print them out and type them in (long story), so I'm hoping someone will have an idea based on the above information... Otherwise I'll inflict the error messages on you tomorrow :) I can't help but think that I'm missing some basic kvm initialization step or something in the boot process. Help ? I swapon my vn swap device and it doesn't complain, but I can't verify that it's actually being used because pstat/swapinfo are broke. I'm assuming that a swapless system will just croak when it runs out of physical memory, not behave this way.. Ideas? Thanks! -Matt Wilbur To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message