I'm attempting to boot a -current system (from 4 days ago) off of a modified
GENERIC kernel floppy disk, and it is failing in kern/vfs_conf.c's vfs_mountrootfs
routine, with a message:
rootdev=0xffffffff error=6, panic: cannot mount root(2)
rootdev is NODEV, and err is ENXIO.
The isc-dhcp server does serve the bootp request successfully (I get messages from
the -current kernel that indicate an IP address, rootfs, et.al), and the NFS server
reports the success of the client mounting the NFS-exported filesystem (the server
is a 3.1-RELEASE machine). I am not specifying any swap (yet).
I'm using a straight GENERIC kernel, kgzipped, with options added at the end:
options BOOTP
options BOOTP_NFSROOT
options BOOTP_COMPAT
options NULLFS
options UNION
(the NFS_ROOT option is already in GENERIC.)
Am I missing something? (I tried "BOOTP_NFSV3" option also)... Any success stories
using this method? (as documented in /usr/share/examples/diskless)
-Mark Taylor
NetMAX Developer
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http://www.netmax.com/
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