From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 28 21: 2:49 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D67D037B401 for ; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 21:02:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from ambrisko.com (adsl-64-174-51-42.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [64.174.51.42]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C92943F9B for ; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 21:02:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ambrisko@www.ambrisko.com) Received: from www.ambrisko.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ambrisko.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0T52lF0078851; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 21:02:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ambrisko@www.ambrisko.com) Received: (from ambrisko@localhost) by www.ambrisko.com (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h0T52lDO078846; Tue, 28 Jan 2003 21:02:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ambrisko) From: Doug Ambrisko Message-Id: <200301290502.h0T52lDO078846@www.ambrisko.com> Subject: Re: help: can't boot 5.0 diskless In-Reply-To: <200301231622.h0NGMhut011888@char.research.bell-labs.com> To: Dong Lin Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 21:02:47 -0800 (PST) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL94b (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dong Lin writes: | | Hi, I have been running etherboot/diskless machines successfully with | several 4.x releases. Now I have trouble bringing up 5.0 diskless x86 | machines. The same dhcp/nfs/etherboot setup works for 4.x. But the 5.0 | kernel freezes and eventually crashes without printing anything on the | console. I am pretty sure it has passed the etherboot stage, network | traces showed that init was loaded via NFS. If I replace the 5.0 | kernel with a 4.7 image, it simply works. | | Can someone tell me what different things I have to do in a diskless | 5.0 kernel? I do have the BOOTP, BOOTP_* and NFS_ROOT options enabled. | | Thanks for your help, Remember to compile in the hints into the 5.X kernel. The loader PXE/disk loaders do that for you but Etherboot doesn't. Doug A. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message