Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:05:23 -0700 From: Tim Judd <tajudd@gmail.com> To: Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, "Michael W. Lucas" <mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> Subject: Re: diskless problem: Lookup of /dev for devfs, error: 13 Message-ID: <ade45ae90911192105k7b3c6f88naf81c85239d95634@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <6201873e0911191355l6c872cfat235e16b4184b02fd@mail.gmail.com> References: <20091119211829.GA86841@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org> <6201873e0911191355l6c872cfat235e16b4184b02fd@mail.gmail.com>
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On 11/19/09, Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Michael W. Lucas < > mwlucas@blackhelicopters.org> wrote: > >> >> Hi, >> >> I'm attempting to run a diskless 8.0 i386 workstation on VMWare, using >> an OpenSolaris box as a file store. I get PXE, the kernel loads, but >> when we try to remount the filesystem I get: >> >> ... >> NFS ROOT: XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX:/storage1/vm/netflow >> Lookup of /dev for devfs, error 13 >> exec /sbin/init: error 13 >> exec /sbin/oinit: error 13 >> exec /sbin/init.bak: error 13 >> exec /rescue/inet: error 13 >> exec /stand/sysinstall: error 13 >> init: not found in path >> ... Firewall embedded into the kernel? disable and or remove and try again. >> >> At first glance, it would appear that /dev is missing. I've never >> seen this happen before diskless systems, though, and I can't find any >> other references to this. I know that other people have PXE-booted >> FreeBSD on VMWare, however. >> >> Anyone have any suggestions on what to check? >> >> Thanks, >> >> > I think you were following the same aged howto I was. Whatever config file > /stand/sysinstall and friends is located in needs to be edited and have > those references removed. That's about as far as I got when playing around > a few ago. I think the rc/init tries to run all of those as hard-coded values. I recall trying to build a floppy diskette with a minimal kernel and minimal single-user world, and i repeatedely got the above while trying to build the floppy. This would have either been the 4.x or 6.x days.
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