Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2013 08:11:52 -0500 (EST) From: Daniel Feenberg <feenberg@nber.org> To: Bernt Hansson <bah@bananmonarki.se> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with diskless/nfs Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.2.02.1301200806060.20240@nber4.nber.org> In-Reply-To: <50FBBE6A.3020206@bananmonarki.se> References: <50FBBE6A.3020206@bananmonarki.se>
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On Sun, 20 Jan 2013, Bernt Hansson wrote: > Hello list! > > I'm trying to set up a diskless workstation, but I fail. > > The boot process stops at "Can't find kernel" then the OK prompt appear. > > In the log I have this: > > mountd[1200]: mount request denied from 10.0.0.6 for /news/spool/ad16/x86 > > pxeboot loads but can't find the kernel because of this. > > in inetd.conf I have this for tftpd > > > tftp dgram udp wait root /usr/libexec/tftpd tftpd -l > -s /news/spool/ad16/x86 > > It seems like it is some problem with nfs. kernel is loaded by tftp - so nfs isn't the problem. Find a tftp client and see if the kernel is available to it. I suspect the kernel isn't world-readable and executable. It may also be that tftpd isn't available beyond localhost - did you edit hosts.allow? See http://www.nber.org/sys-admin/FreeBSD-diskless.html for our experiences with diskless boot. daniel feenberg NBER > > Any help is welcome. > > /B > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >
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