From owner-freebsd-net Thu Jan 23 8:23: 5 2003 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 B7C4237B401; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 08:23:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from crufty.research.bell-labs.com (ns2.research.bell-labs.com [204.178.16.49]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 406E943F13; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 08:23:00 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dong@research.bell-labs.com) Received: from scummy.research.bell-labs.com (H-135-104-2-10.research.bell-labs.com [135.104.2.10]) by crufty.research.bell-labs.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h0NGMoLI072400; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 11:22:50 -0500 (EST) Received: from char.research.bell-labs.com (char.research.bell-labs.com [135.104.52.83]) by scummy.research.bell-labs.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h0NGMiI16591; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 11:22:44 -0500 (EST) Received: from char.research.bell-labs.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by char.research.bell-labs.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h0NGMhut011888; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 11:22:44 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from dong@research.bell-labs.com) Message-Id: <200301231622.h0NGMhut011888@char.research.bell-labs.com> To: current@freebsd.org, net@freebsd.org Subject: help: can't boot 5.0 diskless Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 11:22:43 -0500 From: Dong Lin Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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, Dong Lin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message