On Wed, Oct 05, 2005 at 09:07:58PM +0200, Marco Molteni wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to boot a diskless box (via PXE), both server and diskless > run FreeBSD 6.0-BETA4. The diskless machine hangs after printing > the date on the console. I added debug output to /etc/rc, > /etc/initdiskless and finally /sbin/init. It seems to hang in init > after calling multi_user(). > > A bit before the hang, rc.initdiskless does > sysctl -n kern.bootp_cookie and it prints: > sysctl: unknown oid 'kern.bootp_cookie' > > Is this a known issue? I can upgrade to -current if needed. > > PS in the process of setting up the diskless root I also updated > clone_root to work with fbsd > 4.x, retaining 4.x compatibility, > seems to work fine.
It works for me basicly the same way it has since 4.x. I don't use the clone_root procedure and use installworld/kernel with DESTDIR set. -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4
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