Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2012 10:24:30 +0000 From: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz_lst@tdx.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD 9-R pxeboot fails with 'Mounting root filesystem rw failed'... Message-ID: <0D52CADE287778C263E7EF6A@OctaHexa64-MkII>
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Hi, I've got a 9.0-R amd64 system I'm trying to netboot / pxeboot from the network, to install other machines (and do fixups etc.) I set this up as we setup previous versions here - but setting up a tftp server, and nfs server - and 'dumping' the contents of the install CD to a directory on the dhcp server, which is exported via nfs (it's exported as read/write). The system kind of boots, but falls over with: " Interface em0 IP-Address 192.168.0.47 Broadcast 192.168.0.255 Entropy harvesting: interrupts ethernet point_to_pick kickstart. Starting file system checks: mount_nfs: no <host>:<dirpath> nfs-name Mounting root filesystem rw failed, startup aborted ERROR: ABORTING BOOT (sending SIGTERM to parent)! Mar 1 118:10 init: /bin/sh on /etc/rc terminated abnormally, going to single user mode Enter full pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh: " It looks like it's failing to 'remount' / promote the root file system as read/write (It's definitely exported as read/write - I've tested it by mounting it on another machine). If you start a shell at this point and run mount, you get: " 192.168.0.37:/usr2/netboot/os/9.0-amd64 on / (nfs, read-only) devfs on /dev (devfs, local, multilabel) " Is there something I have to set (e.g. in '/etc/rc.conf') in order to fix this? Previous systems setup this way would always boot through to the sysinstall menu. Thanks, -Karl
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