From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 19 21:55:15 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F31E106566C for ; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:55:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from amvandemore@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pz0-f185.google.com (mail-pz0-f185.google.com [209.85.222.185]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 62FF98FC17 for ; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:55:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pzk15 with SMTP id 15so1837381pzk.3 for ; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:55:15 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=+WuLGena5rGHsUvGPx6BzpevJA5pHyb80LFtxTNfuWk=; b=d8woQlk80d/YwMW63Nt5d6ItDJrahCB7eMZQmla/FOphEsj75XOyzcUqIvp2oP1OJ3 sVzE3xOrblCe/OiVz+lcwx1yXTFPZy7okM+54NVlweY4Ytdd1FTEpk7NPXgfpktRkyjE 10objV0bhRJgb8THIxF/A33h9BzKK0sNI7prI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=mTptaIKWLYFzi0ibdLjdBR7J0LOUwak487oyIaRV4ICRn8QBp2+0N8tqe4Q0umbRNj FIB5ZMrAw2XAo7z+jtRGBd6W5r3/SPzULrbv7foNmIohfkyOZTdo+InpoQ90V6xfBG63 xYzygWAcezqUoW8DNLoYkbcWOhX5NosZPEyIQ= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.142.248.41 with SMTP id v41mr54005wfh.284.1258667715014; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:55:15 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20091119211829.GA86841@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org> References: <20091119211829.GA86841@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org> Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:55:14 -0600 Message-ID: <6201873e0911191355l6c872cfat235e16b4184b02fd@mail.gmail.com> From: Adam Vande More To: "Michael W. Lucas" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: diskless problem: Lookup of /dev for devfs, error: 13 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:55:15 -0000 On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Michael W. Lucas < mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm attempting to run a diskless 8.0 i386 workstation on VMWare, using > an OpenSolaris box as a file store. I get PXE, the kernel loads, but > when we try to remount the filesystem I get: > > ... > NFS ROOT: XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:/storage1/vm/netflow > Lookup of /dev for devfs, error 13 > exec /sbin/init: error 13 > exec /sbin/oinit: error 13 > exec /sbin/init.bak: error 13 > exec /rescue/inet: error 13 > exec /stand/sysinstall: error 13 > init: not found in path > ... > > At first glance, it would appear that /dev is missing. I've never > seen this happen before diskless systems, though, and I can't find any > other references to this. I know that other people have PXE-booted > FreeBSD on VMWare, however. > > Anyone have any suggestions on what to check? > > Thanks, > > I think you were following the same aged howto I was. Whatever config file /stand/sysinstall and friends is located in needs to be edited and have those references removed. That's about as far as I got when playing around a few ago. -- Adam Vande More