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From: "kevin stovall" <kevinstovall@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Diskless Boot Guide?
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I am trying to put together a compute cluster (currently running FreeBSD 
6-BETA2) which I want to boot diskless. I have been having problems setting 
it up and am wondering if someone has created a walkthrough of how to do it 
besides the one in the FreeBSD Handbook.

On the server machine, there are only two partitions, one at / and one at 
/home. Would this cause a potential problem?

I am using PXE. The diskless machine finds the kernel fine, but hangs what 
seems to be just before giving the login prompt. The last few lines are:

Trying to mount root from nfs:192.168.0.200:/home/diskless_ro
NFS ROOT: 192.168.0.200:/home/diskless_ro
Interface fxp0 IP-Address 192.168.0.196 Broadcast 192.168.0.255

Date

Thanks,
Kevin Stovall