Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 18:24:22 -0700 From: John Clark <jclark@metricsystems.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Strange NFS root booting behavior. Message-ID: <46144FC6.3050801@metricsystems.com>
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I've set up a dhcp server to support two (or more) clients, which mount their root on an nfs shared volume. For one client, the booting process has one symptom: after the initial PXEBOOT and getting the parameters from the dhcp server, the boot process hangs at: pxe_boot: gateway ip: ... And after a few minutes eventuall loads the loader.conf and after a few more minutes, loads the kernel, which seems pretty speedy given the twirlers. On the other system, oddly, the boot process seems to whip through the above boot section with no hesitation. However, after the kernel is loaded, and the init starts up, with in a ver few initial commands there is a diagnostic to the effect: Starting file system checks: Then ... mount /: Bad file descriptor Mounting root filesystem rw failed, startup aborted. Since I'm booting off of the same hierarchy, I did create a ramdisk and initialized a file system to have '/var/run' created local to the client systems. Are there other things that need to be separated for each client? And would failing to do set these up, give the above behavior, in particular the failure to boot and run through the normal rc scripts. Thanks John Clark.
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