Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 15:27:56 +0200 (CEST) From: "Hartmann, O." <ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de> To: <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: oh my god ... again, no diskless boot ... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0108021517380.1364-100000@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de>
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Hello. Well, yesterday I ran into trouble after installing the newest sources of FBSD 4.3-STABLE. We lost our diskless X-terminals because they won't boot after that update. Yesterday night I copied /etc/ of the diskless root from etc.bak back to etc and was wondering that all X terminals booted again. Today, I did a cvsupdate again and I read to late that the code is in a kind of 'wobbing' status (slushy or something else, don't care). All of our servers running FBSD 4.3-STABEL run stable and offered nothing suspicious until now. Only the diskless systems crashes - and the kind of crashing is funny! After powering the terminal on it searches for its DHCP (isc-dhcp2), it finds it and then I see the status message when the kernel gets loaded (rotating slash and several hex numbers). But this is to short to watch, immediately after that I see a lot of squared pixels, flashing, nice coloured and remembers me to the time of the C64. It seems that the graphical interface or/and the whole system crashes immediately after trying to start the kernel. Technical data: Our diskless terminals use a AMD K7-DURON 700 MHz, a DFI AK74-EC motherboard, 64 MB PC133-3 RAM, a Intel EtherExpress 100+ NIC and a GigaByte GA660+ Riva TNT2 based graphics accelerator. The terminals boot via PXE/DHCP. I write this message from another terminal I was working from this morning on and loaded with the old kernel. Can anyone tell my what happened to the diskless stuff? Why are the diskless systems involved? The only difference is that they use MFS (all other servers do not use MFS due to the fact that in the past MFS produces on SMP systems many harsh problems). Thanks, oliver -- MfG O. Hartmann ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de ---------------------------------------------------------------- IT-Administration des Institut fuer Physik der Atmosphaere (IPA) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz Becherweg 21 55099 Mainz Tel: +496131/3924662 (Maschinenraum) Tel: +496131/3924144 FAX: +496131/3923532 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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