From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 18 10:58:11 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3BFB106564A for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 10:58:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de) Received: from mrelay1.uni-hannover.de (mrelay1.uni-hannover.de [130.75.2.106]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81D148FC0A for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 10:58:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from www.pmp.uni-hannover.de (www.pmp.uni-hannover.de [130.75.117.2]) by mrelay1.uni-hannover.de (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p6IAcMcQ012694 for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 12:38:23 +0200 Received: from pmp.uni-hannover.de (unknown [130.75.117.3]) by www.pmp.uni-hannover.de (Postfix) with SMTP id C772372 for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2011 12:38:22 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 12:38:22 +0200 From: Gerrit =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=FChn?= To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-Id: <20110718123822.b47c9e7e.gerrit@pmp.uni-hannover.de> Organization: Albert-Einstein-Institut (MPI =?ISO-8859-1?Q?f=FCr?= Gravitationsphysik & IGP =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Universit=E4t?= Hannover) X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.0.3 (GTK+ 2.22.1; amd64-portbld-freebsd8.1) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-PMX-Version: 5.5.9.395186, Antispam-Engine: 2.7.2.376379, Antispam-Data: 2011.7.18.102714 Subject: diskless booting with 8.2 regression? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: gerrit.kuehn@aei.mpg.de List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2011 10:58:11 -0000 Hi all, I just updated my nfs/tftp server for diskless booting from 8.0-rel to 8.2-stable. I have a bunch of Linux clients that used to work with the 8.0-setup, but fail to boot now. On the server side I see Jul 18 11:18:24 mclane tftpd[72434]: Got ERROR packet: TFTP Aborted in the log/messages, but the Linux kernel appears to be transferred over the net just fine (so this is probably not the real issue). It starts to boot and fails at some later point (with no apparent error message on screen) causing an endless reboot loop. I already googled for quite some time on this now, but nothing useful came up. The error message above seems to be harmless, at least the machines of people reporting them work nevertheless. Are there any known issues/regressions with tftp/nfs diskless booting? I read in some posts that people were vaguely "having problems" with it when updating to 8.2-something, but could not find any details. Are there any further hints what I could do to narrow down the problem? cu Gerrit