From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 5 20:14:16 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B7AA16A42F for ; Wed, 5 Oct 2005 20:14:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 77B8343D4C for ; Wed, 5 Oct 2005 20:14:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from brdavis@odin.ac.hmc.edu) Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j95KEEwr024851; Wed, 5 Oct 2005 13:14:14 -0700 Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0/Submit) id j95KEE3D024849; Wed, 5 Oct 2005 13:14:14 -0700 Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 13:14:14 -0700 From: Brooks Davis To: Marco Molteni Message-ID: <20051005201414.GB5729@odin.ac.hmc.edu> References: <20051005210758.15763976.molter@tin.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="4bRzO86E/ozDv8r1" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051005210758.15763976.molter@tin.it> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=8.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on odin.ac.hmc.edu Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: diskless broken in 6.x ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 20:14:16 -0000 --4bRzO86E/ozDv8r1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 09:07:58PM +0200, Marco Molteni wrote: > Hi, >=20 > I am trying to boot a diskless box (via PXE), both server and diskless > run FreeBSD 6.0-BETA4. The diskless machine hangs after printing > the date on the console. I added debug output to /etc/rc, > /etc/initdiskless and finally /sbin/init. It seems to hang in init > after calling multi_user(). >=20 > A bit before the hang, rc.initdiskless does > sysctl -n kern.bootp_cookie and it prints: > sysctl: unknown oid 'kern.bootp_cookie' >=20 > Is this a known issue? I can upgrade to -current if needed. >=20 > PS in the process of setting up the diskless root I also updated > clone_root to work with fbsd > 4.x, retaining 4.x compatibility, > seems to work fine. It works for me basicly the same way it has since 4.x. I don't use the clone_root procedure and use installworld/kernel with DESTDIR set. -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --4bRzO86E/ozDv8r1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDRDQVXY6L6fI4GtQRAhUIAJwOM0twP+ZlOAV67xnYaVJsfKjIbgCfXbVS gvEh9znOpD7fY4P+/jZ0GFo= =DOe7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --4bRzO86E/ozDv8r1--