in your rc.conf or rc.conf.local, you should set
early_nfs_mounts="YES"
so that /usr and friends are mounted before rc.diskless2
is invoked. This has worked for me at least in 3.1-something
(the scripts in the CVS repository derive from the setup
i have prepared on that version).
not sure about the /var/db/mounttab problem because i do not
see this file on my 4.x system, and
strings `which mount` | grep mount
does not reveal any reference to that file... maybe it
is a -CURRENT thing ?
cheers
luigi
>
> Hello,
>
> this a simili victory report : the PC now boots via PXE (this is a Motorola
> rack-mount PC, with a no-thrills BX motherboard and an fxp NIC, with a
> strictly 4.2-Release installation)
>
> the rc.diskless2 must be wrong (I've not yet checked with -Stable),
> as it tries to chmod, chgrp and find in /var
> before mounting /usr (this must be a chicken-and-egg question, as a forced
> /usr mount in the beginning of rc.diskless2 gives an error message about
> /var/db/mounttab not being there)
>
> in the limited tests I have done, I have not been able to start the machine
> with a strict bootp setup : the PXE ROM says there are no answers if I
> force the dhcpd as a BOOTP server (I want to control the correspondance
> between the MAC and IP addresses)
>
> the PXE boot rom is a 2.0 release, compile number 68 (is there any more
> stable or better version ?)
>
> TfH
>
>
>
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