Re: diskless boot of a PXE-compatible machine : finally done !

Hi, while looking into diskless operation it was noticed that: > early_nfs_mounts was removed with revision 1.209 of rc > >() do you remember why that was done ? It was used for diskless operation --

Re: diskless boot ...

> Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > > > in your rc.conf or rc.conf.local, you should set > > > > early_nfs_mounts="YES" > > Well : (I don't find this knob in a recent -Stable machine - it is > indeed in the examples) > multi# cd /etc > mult

Re: diskless boot of a PXE-compatible machine : finally done !

Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > in your rc.conf or rc.conf.local, you should set > > early_nfs_mounts="YES" Well : (I don't find this knob in a recent -Stable machine - it is indeed in the examples) multi# cd /etc multi# grep early rc* rc:# BOOTP diskless boot. We ha

Re: diskless boot of a PXE-compatible machine : finally done !

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 su

diskless boot of a PXE-compatible machine : finally done !

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