From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jun 16 20:17:49 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA23953 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 16 Jun 1998 20:17:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dc1.mfn.org (ftp.mfn.org [204.238.179.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA23945 for ; Tue, 16 Jun 1998 20:17:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sysadmin@mfn.org) Received: from slowbob.mfn.org (unverified [204.238.179.16]) by mail.mfn.org (EMWAC SMTPRS 0.83) with SMTP id ; Tue, 16 Jun 1998 22:20:20 -0500 Received: by slowbob.mfn.org with Microsoft Mail id <01BD9974.DD76AC00@slowbob.mfn.org>; Tue, 16 Jun 1998 22:19:44 -0500 Message-ID: <01BD9974.DD76AC00@slowbob.mfn.org> From: "J.A. Terranson" To: "'Dan Busarow'" Cc: "'FreeBSD Questions'" Subject: RE: Detailed cry for [bootp] help... Date: Tue, 16 Jun 1998 22:19:43 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG OK. All Done... I had a good stiff drink (Johnny Blue), and a good long "sit" away from the tube, and thought this out. (1) the inital boot sequence (just obtaining the kernel) *does* require NFS support, therefore, NFS is at least exporting from the server. (2) Since the kernel *was* loaded, the place to begin looking was right there: the kernel... (3) I compiled a couple of different flavors of kernel, "just to see what would happen", and each compile brought new and interesting :) information forward... (4) I had included the wd drivers so that I could maintain some local space for swap if it turned out that I needed it. Once I removed those drivers, the thing came right up! I (obviously) need to document this for my own internal use, and since I found several emails in the archives with the identical questions/errors I had, I'll prolly submit it to the handbook if they want it (after all, the entire "section" on NFS consists of a treatise on interactions with high end Sun servers looping FBSD... In the interim, if anybody wants the "dirrty" notes, let me know000000000000000000 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ cat walking on keyboard... :) Meow... J.A. Terranson sysadmin@mfn.org ***** E X T R A B I G T H A N K S T O ***** ********** D A N B U S A R O W ***** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message