Re: Trouble booting NFS root

2006-06-04 Thread lukem . freebsd
On Thu, 1 Jun 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to set up a small cluster of diskless boxes using FreeBSD 6.1. So Far, PXE loads pxeboot which loads the kernel. But the kernel stops in the middle of booting for no apparent reason. The last thing on the console is "Timecounters tick eve

Re: Trouble booting NFS root

2006-06-02 Thread Nash Nipples
Umm... I hope you didnt cut this portion out of your diskless kernel options NFS_ROOT # NFS usable as /, requires NFSCLIENT options NFSCLIENT # Network Filesystem Client options NFSSERVER # Network Filesystem Server You migh also want to re-read FreeB

Re: Trouble booting NFS root

2006-06-01 Thread lukem . freebsd
make sure you have this: -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel diskless_root/etc/rc diskless_root/etc/rc: /bin/sh #which points your rc file to shell so that you are your own rc! While that is a useful tip, the NFS trace shows that the kernel doesn't even try to read any files. The last thing that gets re

Re: Trouble booting NFS root

2006-06-01 Thread Nash Nipples
Hi, sorry, im new to this FreeBSD but um, the only quick thing i can think of is to make sure you have this: -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel diskless_root/etc/rc if yes then you might want to put this string at the top of your diskless_root/etc/rc: /bin/sh #which points your rc file to shell so that

Trouble booting NFS root

2006-05-31 Thread lukem . freebsd
I'm trying to set up a small cluster of diskless boxes using FreeBSD 6.1. So Far, PXE loads pxeboot which loads the kernel. But the kernel stops in the middle of booting for no apparent reason. The last thing on the console is "Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec", which usually occurs just bef