From owner-freebsd-current Thu Apr 20 12:20:57 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id MAA06900 for current-outgoing; Thu, 20 Apr 1995 12:20:57 -0700 Received: from devnull.mpd.tandem.com (devnull.mpd.tandem.com [131.124.4.29]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA06894 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 1995 12:20:56 -0700 Received: from muzak by devnull.mpd.tandem.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id OAA21584; Thu, 20 Apr 1995 14:20:35 -0500 Received: by muzak (4.1/TSS2.1) id AA08100; Thu, 20 Apr 95 14:16:36 CDT From: chain@mpd.tandem.com (Chain Lee) Message-Id: <9504201916.AA08100@muzak> Subject: Re: 950412-SNAP To: current@FreeBSD.org Date: Thu, 20 Apr 1995 14:16:35 -0500 (CDT) Cc: chain%muzak.mpd.tandem.com@mpd.tandem.com (Chain Lee) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL17] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1823 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Hello, > > First let me thank you (in case I forget :-) for the great work > you've accomplished! > > I have a few comments/questions regarding diskless and kernel debug > support in this snapshot. > > When running a diskless station using nfs shared /usr, /usr needs > to be mounted very earlier on in /etc/rc and /etc/netstart. In the > current scripts, "mount -a -t nfs" is started after system daemons > which require /usr to be mounted, and therefore the system fails > to start. The mount command may need to be moved into middle of > /etc/netstart where network has been set up but before starting > any network daemons. > > 2) My 'diskless' station has only a DOS partition and no FreeBSD > partition in a wd0 (ST506). It panics during diskless boot. I traced > down the panic to wdopen which was getting an integer division fault. > The trace is as follows: > configure() > swapconf() > wdsize() > wdopen() > ---idiv fault > Is this a known problem? I got around the problem by bypassing wdopen() > but wasn't able to trace further down because no symbols were loaded > into the kernel, and ddb trace shows no names. I modified netboot to > load symbol table over the net but it seems to have no effect. What > other things do I need to do to get the symbol table loaded into ddb? 3) One more thing: mountd seems to allow only one directory to be exported for a mounted file system if no -alldirs options is given. The subsequent entries will get "permission denied" error when being mounted. Is this a desired behavior or a bug (or I was doing something wrong?) > > Thank you again! > > -chain -chain -- Chain Lee Tandem Computers, Inc. Voice: (512) 432-8969 14231 Tandem Boulevard Email: chain@isd.tandem.com Austin, TX 78728-6699 Office: 2359