From owner-freebsd-current Mon Mar 15 11:49:35 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from carbon.marathon.org (carbon.marathon.org [209.180.116.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A4561512B; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 11:48:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nje@carbon.marathon.org) Received: from localhost (nje@localhost) by carbon.marathon.org (8.9.2/8.9.2) with ESMTP id MAA17446; Mon, 15 Mar 1999 12:47:51 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nje@carbon.marathon.org) Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 12:47:51 -0700 (MST) From: Nicholas Esborn To: Matthew Dillon Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Diskless boot stopping at "NFS ROOT:..." In-Reply-To: <199903141922.LAA93438@apollo.backplane.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks for the pointer. This seems to have been the problem and I have it booting now. As a followup, is it possible to specify boot parameters (i.e. splash screen, pnp config, etc) on a machine that is net booting? Thanks for the help. Nick On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote: > I had a very weird problem with the new parallel port device that caused > this to occur. It turned out to be speculative probing by the parallel > device causing the system to go unstable. > > Try disabling the new parallel port device(s)/controllers and see if you > can boot again. > > -Matt > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message