From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 1 10:50:11 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id KAA01651 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 1 May 1995 10:50:11 -0700 Received: from peanuts.vlsi.com (peanuts.vlsi.com [134.27.2.21]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id KAA01645 for ; Mon, 1 May 1995 10:50:09 -0700 From: rajeev.jayavant@tempe.vlsi.com Received: from pcdmail.tempe.vlsi.com by peanuts.vlsi.com (8.6.9/SMI4.1-UCB8.6.9/Perlotto-DeLong-080394) id KAA18916; Mon, 1 May 1995 10:49:14 -0700 Received: from wayward (wayward [134.27.89.140]) by pcdmail.tempe.vlsi.com (8.6.9/Hub-Perlotto/032095) with SMTP id KAA21338 for ; Mon, 1 May 1995 10:53:31 -0700 Received: by wayward id AA01673; Mon, 1 May 95 10:53:40 MST Date: Mon, 1 May 95 10:53:40 MST Message-Id: <9505011753.AA01673@wayward> To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: problems setting up diskless system Reply-To: rajeev.jayavant@tempe.vlsi.com Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Greetings, I'm trying to set up a diskless system using FreeBSD 2.0-release for both the server and the client. I've gone through the Diskless.FAQ and the netboot.doc several times to look for obvious problems and haven't come up with anything yet. bootpd and tftpd seem to be working properly. I'm invoking netboot.com from DOS on the client, and the boot process proceeds to the point where the /tftpboot/cfg.x.x.x.x file is read. The contents of that file are echoed on the screen and the boot sequence fails shortly after that claiming that permission was denied for the NFS mount of the swap partition. I've tried several several permutions for the filesystem in /etc/exports (exxport to the client, export to everyone, export the entire filesystem, export mount points only, etc) -- no luck. Any suggestions on what else I can try would be greatly appreciated. As a side experiment, I also decided to see what would happen if I didn't specify a swapfs value in the tftpboot config file. Sure enough, I got past the above problem and the kernel successfully loaded and the boot process began. Everything went well until it tried to change the root file system to the NFS-mounted root partition. The ip address of the NFS ROOT was displayed as 0.0.0.0 and not the address that had been specified via the rootfs command. Seems like something is out of whack with the bootstrap code. Do I need to specify some extra options in the kernel configuration for s diskless client? Everything is stock 2.0-release code. Both machines are 486-based machines with VL slots and 16 MB of memory. The "server" has been running for several months now, so I feel pretty confident that this isn't an inherent hardware incompatibility. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Rajeev P.S. Thanks for all the work that you guys have put into FreeBSD. It is a truly excellent product, and I look forward to seeing 2.1. =============================================================================== Rajeev Jayavant "Excuse me, I've lost my marbles." VLSI Technology, Inc. - Penguin Opus 8375 South River Pkwy, MS 250, Tempe, AZ 85284 (602)752-6273 rajeev.jayavant@tempe.vlsi.com ===============================================================================