From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 1 08:32:00 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A469116A6B3 for ; Thu, 1 Jun 2006 08:32:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from trashy_bumper@yahoo.com) Received: from web36305.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web36305.mail.mud.yahoo.com [209.191.84.235]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9411743D49 for ; Thu, 1 Jun 2006 08:31:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from trashy_bumper@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 59012 invoked by uid 60001); 1 Jun 2006 08:31:59 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=xhonjLDapWdHOeCgJs3QddUgfUP0psEzXsCF5Gtw4Q6Ss0yF0I4GGgmQKHo69en56+KI2ykzZnV2OLwaPFNDGnQluDvB9wbJrB4tcvXSwxuYNQrZY87F2OL1M0KJZRHcowoauQ/1OA9SmYNH+0RN5J9WIjEwqtxJYtjfjnH/5vE= ; Message-ID: <20060601083159.59010.qmail@web36305.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Received: from [213.227.206.11] by web36305.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 01 Jun 2006 01:31:59 PDT Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 01:31:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Nash Nipples To: lukem.freebsd@cse.unsw.edu.au In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Trouble booting NFS root X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 08:32:10 -0000 Hi, sorry, im new to this FreeBSD but um, the only quick thing i can think of is to make sure you have this: -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel diskless_root/etc/rc if yes then you might want to put this string at the top of your diskless_root/etc/rc: /bin/sh #which points your rc file to shell so that you are your own rc! and make it chmod 755 diskless_root/etc/rc now wen your little beastie starts you do the config steps with your own hands and then just correct the rc file. actually when i had those trouble days i used to write custom rc files generating memory disks at boot and so fourth. have fun, it musta work. there is something in the configs Sincerely Nash do it yourself and then hit ctrl-D and hoopla lukem.freebsd@cse.unsw.edu.au wrote: I'm trying to set up a small cluster of diskless boxes using FreeBSD 6.1. So Far, PXE loads pxeboot which loads the kernel. But the kernel stops in the middle of booting for no apparent reason. The last thing on the console is "Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec", which usually occurs just before the root partition is mounted. When I do a traffic dump on the NFS server, I see: mount /mnt/local/tinny/root lookup /etc lookup fstab.split (this fails as there is no /etc/fstab.split) mount /mnt/local/tinny/root lookup /etc lookup /etc/fstab.gz.split (also fails) mount /mnt/local/tinny/root lookup /etc lookup /etc/fstab.gz (also fails) mount /mnt/local/tinny/root lookup /etc lookup /etc/fstab (this time it succeeds) read from filehandle (contents of /etc/fstab look correct in packet) second read from the filehandle (returns empty --- I assume this is EOF) /mnt/local/tinny/fstab contains: --------------------------------- New Yahoo! Messenger with Voice. Call regular phones from your PC and save big.