From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 27 20:29:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (oe21.law10.hotmail.com [64.4.14.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E26C37B403 for ; Fri, 27 Jul 2001 20:29:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mheitmeier@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Fri, 27 Jul 2001 20:29:25 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [64.34.181.113] From: "Michael" To: Subject: Diskless booting trouble... Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 20:29:19 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.3018.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.3018.1300 Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 28 Jul 2001 03:29:25.0055 (UTC) FILETIME=[7FE4FCF0:01C11715] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I came a long way, at least I have a booting system. Except... The kernel boots and then the system goes into a spiral of error messages: The last few kernel lines (bright letters) are: rootfs is 10.0.0.1:/tftpboot Ignoring field type 15 Mounting root from nfs: NFS ROOT: 10.0.0.1:/tftpboot And then this: Interface rl0 IP-Address 10.0.0.100 Broadcast 10.0.0.255 mount_null: vfsload(null): No such file or directory source_rc_confs: not found Skipping disk checks ... source_rc_confs: not found mount_null: vfsload(null): No such file or directory /etc/rc.diskless2: cannot create /tmp/dev.tmp: read only file system /etc/rc.diskless2: cannot open /tmp/dev.tmp: no such file ... [network setup, looks alright] ... chflags: /dev/tty[pqrsPQRS]*: No such file or directory chmods: /dev/tty[pqrsPQRS]*: No such file or directory chown: /dev/tty[pqrsPQRS]*: No such file or directory cd: can't cd to /var/spool/lock dmesg: /dev/mem: No such file or directory additional daemons:. Doing additional network setup:. Starting final network daemons:. setting ELF ldconfig path: /usr/lib setting a.out ldconfig path: /usr/lib/aout starting standard daemons: inetd croncron: /var/cron: No such file or directory cron: /var/cron: created cron: tabs: No such file or directory cron: tabs: created . find: /var/tmp/vi.recover: No such file or directory Initial rc.i386 initialization:. rc.1386 configuring syscons: keymap*/etc/rc.i386: cannot open /dev/ttyv0: no such file keyrate/etc/i386: cannot open /dev/ttyv0: no such file screensaverkldload: can't load blank_saver: No such file or directory mousedmoused: unable to open -t: No such file or directory /etc/rc.i386: cannot open /dev/ttyv0: no such file . source_rc_confs: not found additional ABI support:. Additional TCP options:. Fri Jul 27 20:15:56 PDT 2001 And with this the client simply hangs and does not react to the keyboard. I stumbled across rc.diskless[1,2] and now I'm totally confused as to what the sequence of events is and how the client eventually gets r/w access to its designated root file system. It has access, but initially apparently read only. When does fstab come into play? With all the errors it never seems to get there. The documentation I found on the Web is sketchy at best and usually at least two years old. I'm stumped. Anybody? Thanks, Michael To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message